H. G. Wells Quotes
There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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I don't make movies for the same reason that a lot of people do. I make films because I need to see them exist in a very specific way.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.
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I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.
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On television, I tried to absolutely hew to the middle of the road and not show any prejudice or bias in any way.
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Generally, I end up being the one thrown against the wall, because Zach is the drummer. He's stronger than me.
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I went in saying I wanted to be the food guy.
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The Internet's proven to be a pretty big deal for global society, and Bitcoin could basically be thought of as the Internet, applied to money.
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My father was so very afraid. I felt it in the sting of his black leather belt, which he applied with more anxiety than anger, my father who beat me as if someone might steal me away, because that was exactly what was happening all around us.
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'Can't Stop the Music' has become a cult film. It's kind of shocking to me. People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just saw it!'
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Love has had a lot of press-agenting from the oldest times; but there are higher, nobler things than love.
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Caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi.
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I felt that the murderer was in the room. Sitting with us - listening. one of us
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In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid.
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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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So much of Hollywood is this kind of overly machismo, nonsensical view of masculinity, which I just don't find honest. I think it's this idea of - you know, we're told, well, 'Be a man, be a man.' But what does that mean, exactly? Does that mean you can't carry yourself with any fear? That you can't acknowledge that you're scared?
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I think Amsterdam is to Holland what New York is to America in a sense. It's a metropolis, so it's representative of Holland, but only a part of it - you know, it's more extreme, there's more happening, it's more liberal and more daring than the countryside in Holland is.
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I'm very lucky to have a husband who cooks, for a start. It's a good partnership. I met him through a friend, and we just hit it off.
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What I don't like about office Christmas parties is looking for a job the next day.
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There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.
