H. G. Wells Quotes
I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
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Track and field was very big when I was growing up.
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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I would love to explore film seeing as I have prominently been on television. It would be nice to change it up and focus on film a little bit.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I started off in comedy, but that's just where I got my work. I've always been an actor.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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By nature and doctrines I am addicted to the habit of discovering choice places wherein to feed.
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Therefore, I see whatever exists as good, death is to me like life, sin like holiness, wisdom like foolishness, everything has to be as it is, everything only requires my consent, only my willingness, my loving agreement, to be good for me, to do nothing but work for my benefit, to be unable to ever harm me.
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I think death has a right to its own courage and dignity and self-respect.
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My ambition is peace and perfection.
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One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth as such; only of truth in terms of enlightened expediency. The contrast is well exemplified in two exact contemporaries Simone Weil and Simone de Beauvoir; both highly intelligent and earnestly disposed. In all the fearful moral dilemmas of our time, Simone Weil never once went astray, whereas Simone de Beauvoir, with I am sure the best of intentions, has found herself aligned with apologists for some of the most monstrous barbarities and falsehoods of history.
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I still think photographers should be lashed out at. They should be put in a cage where you can poke them with a stick for a quarter. But not in a hostile way, just for giggles. They really are on the attack against mankind; it's a disease. They should be helped somewhere. But I'd still like to poke them with a stick.
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I stood staring, not as yet realising that this was death leaping from man to man in that little distant crowd.
