H. G. Wells Quotes

My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.

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• Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.

  

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• He thinks that Schiller and St Paul were just two Partisan Review editors.

  

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• I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

  

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• Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• I actually buy the paper version of The New York Times maybe once or twice a week.

  

  Nate Silver
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• During the civilisation and development process of more than 5,000 years, the Chinese nation has made an indelible contribution to the civilisation and advancement of mankind.

  

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• I'm not the type of person that is forced.

  

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• For twenty years, Islamic Jihadists have been attacking American interests around the world and we did not take them seriously until September 11th, 2001.

  

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• There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.

  

  Carl Bernstein
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• I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, because my sins were a hindrance to me.

  

  Saint Patrick
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• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.

  

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• Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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• Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
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• It was the best route to get folks to understand segregation fast. Civil rights and women's rights had a clear history. Making the transition to rights for people with disabilities became easier because we had the history of the other two.

  

  Major Owens
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• No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
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• I don't know many people, if any, who have had some straight line toward success. I mean, they start here, they work hard, they've got what it takes, and they just go straight to the top over some number of years. Most people get a little failure.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older.

  

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• People were a little leery when I was doing the press for my last album 'Rumble Doll,' yes. It's always that thing that this is a dilettante or a pet project.

  

  Patti Scialfa
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• I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

  

  Mark Twain
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• I have a conscience, man, and I've worked really hard to keep it where you would feel like you were talking to the same man at one of my shows or sitting down at my dinner table.

  

  Cody Johnson
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• My mood, I say, was one of exaltation. I felt as a seeing man might do, with padded feet and noiseless clothes, in a city of the blind. I experienced a wild impulse to jest, to startle people, to clap men on the back, fling people's hats astray, and generally revel in my extraordinary advantage.

  

  H. G. Wells
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