Wells Quotes - Page 25

• If an angel were to tell us about his philosophy, I believe many of his statements might well sound like '2 x 2= 13'.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Philosophy, Believe, Angel

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• Talk to people in their own language.
  If you do it well, they'll say,"God, he said exactly what I was thinking."
  And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

  Lee Iacocca

  Loyalty, Thinking, People

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• It's funny. I'm attracted to things that don't have any impact on life. People say I've done a great thing for women. I don't think I have. People say I've given people courage. That makes me feel good, but I don't see how I do that. I think my running is a selfish thing. But it provides the challenge that allows me to feel good about myself. How can I expect to do well in other activities if I don't feel good about myself?

  Joan Benoit

  Running, Selfish, Thinking

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• Being a father is the most important role I will ever play and if I don't do this well, no other thing I do really matters.

  Michael Josephson

  Dad, Father, Play

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• It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.

  Louise Hay

  Love, Moving Forward, Forward In Life

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• It really comes down to parsimony, economy of explanation. It is possible that your car engine is driven by psychokinetic energy, but if it looks like a petrol engine, smells like a petrol engine and performs exactly as well as a petrol engine, the sensible working hypothesis is that it is a petrol engine.

  Richard Dawkins

  Crazy, Smell, Mad

  "Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". The Richard Dimbleby Lecture, BBC1 Television, 1996.

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• Well, what I want them to know is, just like John Wayne was from Waterloo, Iowa, that's the kind of spirit that I have, too.

  Michele Bachmann

  Crazy, Iowa, Want

  "Hardball with Chris Matthews", www.nbcnews.com. June 27, 2011.

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• Well then I'd certainly be a damned fool to feel any other way, wouldn't I?

  Joseph Heller

  Military, Way, Fool

  Joseph Heller (1999). “Catch-22: A Novel”, p.409, Simon and Schuster

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• According to the group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, fish have feelings too. Whenever my sons go fishing they always tell me, "Dad it doesn't hurt a fish to get hooked." Well I watch and I see and I believe it's painful for the fish.

  Donald Trump

  Funny Inspirational, Hurt, Dad

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• U.S. military action in Iraq: It sure didn't work out well last time. Let's not make that mistake again.

  Alan Grayson

  Mistake, Military, Iraq

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• I would need to see changes in the Iraq governance. Otherwise I don't think strikes are going to have any impact and could be very well counterproductive.

  Adam Schiff

  Military, Thinking, Iraq

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• I remember sitting down with the Rockets and saying, 'Yeah. I'm going to retire.' They said, 'Well, we'll give you $9 million.' And I said, 'You got a pen on you?'

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Giving, Sitting Down

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• It's kinda great to see the Celtics doin well again cuz that was so much fun in my day to go to the Boston Garden and they spit at you and throw things at you and talk about your mom. It sounds like dinner at Kenny Smith's house.

  Charles Barkley

  Basketball, Mom, Fun

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• I only want to play basketball, and play it well and be happy about it. But I realize that with being famous, comes a lot of demands.

  Yao Ming

  Basketball, Play, Demand

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• We couldn't sustain it. And they got a lot of kids that can shoot. We just couldn't close out well enough.

  Bill Russell

  Basketball, Kids, Enough

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• I tell you what really fries my ass. When somebody gets on me for the way I look. Fat. Overweight. Well, I may be overweight. But I'm sure not fat. And I guarantee you, I'm a better athlete than any f***g body writing. To this day, they don't want to play tennis with me. The don't want to play me in golf. They don't want to f***g run with me

  Bobby Knight

  Basketball, Running, Writing

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• I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Thinking

  "Chat Transcript: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar". www.nba.com.

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• Well, my favorite band is Radiohead. But, you know, I am pretty fascinated in general with music. I love music. It is definitely an interest.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Band, Music Love

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• Well, we've made some changes on this tour. We're no longer sleeping in the parking lots and swimming in the fountains. We've been staying in hotels most of the way, though I will say some hotels have declined to take us because we're just having too much fun.

  Bill Walton

  Basketball, Fun, Sleep

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• Hunting is now to most of us a game, whose relish seems based upon some mystic remembrance, in the blood, of ancient days when to hunter as well as hunted it was a matter of life and death.

  Will Durant

  Hunting, Blood, Games

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

  Clarence Day

  Fun, Hunting, Want

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• So many gay jokes tonight about (James) Franco. Apparently if you're clean, well dressed and mildly cultured, you're super gay now. Is that why the rest of you guys are so aggressively fat and dirty? You think if you read one book and take a shower, dicks are going to just fly into your face.

  Aziz Ansari

  Dirty, Book, Gay

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• But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

  Joni Mitchell

  Old Friends, Inspirational Music, Acting

  Song: Both Sides, Now

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• A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself.

  Anatole France

  Writing, Inspired

  Anatole France (1924). “On life & letters”

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• Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

  Geoffrey Chaucer

  Cat, Meat, Milk

  Geoffrey Chaucer (1966). “The Canterbury Tales”

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