H. G. Wells Quotes

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

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  Barbara Kingsolver
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• I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.

  

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• When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
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• I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.

  

  Barbara Fialho
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• I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Same
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• I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
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• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• PETA's campaign should be included in school curricula. If we can open children's hearts and minds to animals' needs, teach them to treat a dog or a chicken as if they feel fear and love and pain - as they do - then they will grow up to understand that we are all worthy of respect.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
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• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

  Eddie Bracken
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• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
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• Despite my excellent mood, I don't have any sympathy for Romney. If he'd been a good candidate he wouldn't have had a different campaign for every month on the calendar.

  

  Gail Collins
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• And when you look at the Turtle's movie there is something there, definitely something there.

  

  Eddie Campbell
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• All you needed back then was a blow dryer and a dream.

  

  Taylor Dayne
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• So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.

  

  Rachel Nichols
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• I believe every woman should have a flat, a really good wedge, and then the showstopper shoe.

  

  Brad Goreski
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• The thing with 'Peter Pan' is it's been done so well so many times.

  

  Edward Kitsis
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• To be a man is to feel that one's own stone contributes to building the edifice of the world.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Building
  • Man Is
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• Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
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• It is the work of the Canadian artist to paint or play or write in such a way that life will be enlarged for himself and his fellow man. The painter will look around him . . . and finding everything good, will strive to communicate that feeling through a portrayal of the essentials of sunlight, or snow, or tree or tragic cloud, or human face, according to his power and individuality.

  

  J. E. H. MacDonald
  • Men
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• The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Running
  • Rest