H. G. Wells Quotes
We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. To work out a way to that world brain organization is therefore our primary need in this age of imperative construction.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
Randy Pausch
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I don't have any nicknames.
Sally Ride
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It's nature-nurture, right? I've been nurtured by Californians.
Gavin Newsom
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
J. Anthony Lukas
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
Randy Harrison
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
Karan Mahajan
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
Karin Slaughter
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
Ornette Coleman
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I wish I had had a great disappointment, a real one.
Nastassja Kinski -
When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn
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A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other committees will bloom in their turn.
C. Northcote Parkinson
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
Quentin Crisp
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
L'Wren Scott
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
Ted Turner
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
Harry Belafonte
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We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
Gary Allan
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Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.
Sabine Baring-Gould
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
Wally Lamb
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I am not at all a politician. I don't think I'm cut out for politics. I am certainly not going to stand for election.
Pervez Musharraf
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Karl Lagerfeld never touched a pair of scissors in his life.
Azzedine Alaia
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The only people love needed to make sense to were the two people falling for each other. Definitely
Bella Andre
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We do not want dictators, we do not want oligarchic parties or class rule, we want a widespread world intelligence conscious of itself. To work out a way to that world brain organization is therefore our primary need in this age of imperative construction.
H. G. Wells