H. G. Wells Quotes
Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
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Never eat spinach just before going on the air.
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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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I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.
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The interesting thing for me is, if I met Michael Peterson in person, I'd want him to let himself off the hook just a little bit.
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My coming out, like most people's, was and is a gradual process - for no matter how out one is, there are always situations when one's with people who don't know, and one has the choice or, sometimes, the necessity of coming out to them.
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If something stinks, I say it stinks. But I try to massage it a little and not be as cutting, come behind it with a joke: Hey, I cut you deep, but now let me put a couple of stitches in you.
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If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said I am, in height, six feet four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair and gray eyes. No other marks or brands recollected.
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Well that's a polite thing to say but that's fucking ridiculous.
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Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal, humbled confidence, and wait with patient expectation for the time in which the soul which Thou receivest shall be satisfied with knowledge.
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...modern poetry is necessarily obscure; if the reader can’t get it, let him eat Browning...
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To eat well in England, you should have a breakfast three times a day.
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I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
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Protection is not a principle, but an expedient.
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I get a lot of comments from people that I remind them of a young Tom Hanks.
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If someone is nice enough to come up to you and tell you how much they enjoy your work, and all they want in return is to take a photograph and for you to chat for five minutes, then I am delighted to do that.
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My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.
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We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.
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When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.
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Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.
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Artists don't really want to be marginalized. They believe that everybody should be able to appreciate the experience that an artist gives them, an experience that connects us to each other in a deep way.
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Death was so channeled and directed by this staircase, yet Sharpe had learned that the steps a man feared most were the ones that had to be taken. He climbed.
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People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives.
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I think the challenge for me in this role is going to be, is there any heart in Negan? For me, I look at that as a challenge as an actor, and that's the kind of thing that I embrace and really look forward to.
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Patriotism has become a mere national self assertion, a sentimentality of flag-cheering with no constructive duties.
