H. G. Wells Quotes
In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think I have a signature.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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I am happy with all the films I've done. I have not become the victim of an image. I have managed to do different roles, and I am proud of that.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Acting is great therapy - you get to do things you'd normally get arrested for.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I still have a young attitude.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I don't want to collect Indian art, though pots and beadwork and blankets made by Indians remain the most beautiful art objects in the American West, in my opinion.
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When we learn to trust the universe, we shall be happy, prosperous and well.
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In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast.
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The world gets older, without getting either better or worse and so does literature. But I do think that the drab current phenomenon that passes for literary studies in the university will finally provide its own corrective.
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With all the negativity going on in the world right now, people need an escape. When you give them a hit record or a great record, it allows them to escape for at least three to four minutes. They're not thinking bills or economy or immigration or war when you create that kind of ambiance.
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In all the round world there is no meat. There used to be. But now we cannot stand the thought of slaughterhouses.
