H. G. Wells Quotes
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After leaving school, I travelled around Europe for about six months. In Denmark, I thought that was my chance to get an amazing haircut, so I went to what I thought was a great hairdresser. It turned out to be the car wash of hairdressers, and I walked out sporting yet another pudding bowl, but this time with a stripe bleached down the centre.
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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It is not only our duty but our moral obligation to break from the oppression of debt. We must rise above the political considerations and do what is right for the future of our nation.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Doctrines provide an architecture for both Republican and Democrat presidents to carry out policies.
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My grandmother impressed upon me the importance of family, and my grandfather encouraged my hunger for learning.
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I believe that there may be intelligent life on other planets.
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There is no force so democratic as the force of an ideal.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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'Blood Meridian' was without question the novel that made me want to become a writer.
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To a certain extent, I enjoy failure. It's part of the game. There's always room to grow; there's room to improve.
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Whatever we want to think about American business - work hard, tell the truth, have morality - it's a myth. There's a lot of graft.
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I'll go for the knockout, and if we have to go 12 rounds, then I'll trust the judges to do their best work, and I will get the victory if I deserve it.
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You always care about your teammates, and you care about the game.
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I owe a great debt to motor-racing, and the first place I went to in Europe when I was 20 was Italy, and I was extremely influenced by it in books until I got there.
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An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
