George Albert Wells Quotes

People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

George Albert Wells

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• By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.

  

  Zach Woods
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• We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
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• It is the function of the President, representing the executive principle, to execute the laws.

  

  Garet Garrett
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• I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I don't know the right way to retire.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • World
  • Children
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• I am always worried that over-planning and outlining will kill the magic of writing; most of the world I created in 'California' occurred via good old sexy sentence-making.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Good
  • Writing

• Perfect is very boring, and if you happen to have a different look, that's a celebration of human nature, I think. If we were all symmetrical and perfect, life would be very dull.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Different
  • Nature

• I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique,' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about; I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by, so I choose my friends carefully!

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Good
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• I took on cancer like I take on everything - like a mission and a job to accomplish.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
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• MusiCares was really good to me. I can't say enough how MusiCares helps other people. They really, really helped me. They have the greatest groups and support for musicians in recovery.

  

  Carlene Carter
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  • Good
  • Support

• You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.

  

  Dana Perino
  • America
  • You
  • Wall

• When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Think
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• We all have to make choices in life.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
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• I think very few people still understand the distinction between CEOs on Wall Street and the hedge-fund billionaires operating separately.

  

  Damian Lewis
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  • Think
  • Wall

• I think that, at the end of the day, I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the 'New York Times' crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • Work
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  • Day

• Where I come from you're not raised to think on your own. It's not that you're pushed to read the Bible. The Bible is read to you.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Think
  • You
  • Bible

• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Peace
  • Democracy
  • Struggle

• Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the latter it awakens the higher nature and works an effect, though but a transitory effect, of a beneficial kind. But the primary purpose of music is neither instruction nor culture but pleasure; and this is an all-sufficient purpose.

  

  Herbert Spencer
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• The Silverlake Conservatory is a nonprofit music school in Los Angeles where we teach music, mostly to kids, but to people of all ages - people who are old, people with beards, all kinds of people.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
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  • Music
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• I got told by pretty much everyone I knew that, if I'm going to be out in L.A., working, you need a car. So I was thinking, I'm going to try and not get a car, just because I'm a contrarian that way.

  

  Alfred Enoch
  • Thinking
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  • Car

• 'They're dangerous people, and what's really frightening is that they don't know it, they don't see themselves as dangerous... they see the danger elsewhere. The danger is always elsewhere. How convenient.' source

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
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• People who cannot think in an orderly way are apt to suppose themselves more imaginative than others.

  

  George Albert Wells
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Imaginative