H. G. Wells Quotes
The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
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There is nothing we can do about the lynching now, as we are out-numbered and without arms.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I bite my nails. I've been chewing on them for years. As long as you don't chew through flesh it's all right.
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You have to interpret what's hot to make it work on yourself. If tweed suits are in, but you're not a suit kind of girl, wear the jacket with jeans and a pair of Converses.
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Nobody should be sent indefinitely into detention; everybody should have their day in court.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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With fandom, people are sensitive, and sometimes defensive, about their experiences.
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Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.
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I don't want to just go out and do song to song to song. I like to create things before the song actually kicks in, little things you do to excite the crowd.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear borrowed clothes and turn up at premieres and talk about things I am passionate about. But then you click back to normality and your family and friends.
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Where there is flagrant abuse of corporate entities we must and will seek to tackle it.
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Criminality is a basic part of human nature.
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I'm very fond of Glasgow, particularly the West End. The whole stretch of the west coast of Scotland from Loch Lomond up through Mallaig to the Kyle of Localsh is so beautiful.
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I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.
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I think I definitely learned how to structure songs, just from listening to a lot of 1960s, 1970s pop music, although I'm sure my mother's watchful eye had a lot to do with it.
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I've been part of founding three companies that have gone public. It doesn't seem like a big number, but it's actually a lot.
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The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.
