H. G. Wells Quotes
Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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I'm as radical as libertarians come.
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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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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation.
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Despite great advances in women's rights, statistics show that when it comes to the balance of power between the sexes, equality is far from being a global reality.
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When you have both parties who will not find ways to compromise, who won't meet in the middle, you have paralysis. It's the perversion of idealism.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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Men who are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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I have not watched Glenn Beck. I don't watch him.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I'm a visual person - when I write, my input is always visual. I worked in television for several years.
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As a producer, sitting on the other side of the desk, I have never once had an agent go out on a limb for his client and fight for him. I've never heard one say, 'No, just a minute! This is the actor you should use.' They will always say, 'You don't like him? I've got somebody else.' They're totally spineless.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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If men make war in slavish obedience to rules, they will fail.
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Definitely I love women, I love being around women, I find them incredible and intoxicating, and I've never had that feeling I get with women with a man.
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I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.
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Great and strange ideas transcending experience often have less effect upon men and women than smaller, more tangible considerations.
