Wells Quotes - Page 32

• Well, I took a sabbatical. I walked away from shooting movies because I couldn't handle the travel. I'm a single parent. I had young kids, and I found that keeping in touch with them from hotel rooms and airports wasn't working for me. So I stopped.

  Rick Moranis

  Travel, Kids, Airports

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• Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

  Umberto Guidoni

  Travel, Two, Clothes

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• I was taught to play the game from a total team concept-to be able to do everything reasonably well and some things extraordinarily well. If I'm not shooting well, I'll try to be an asset in other ways-like defense, passing, rebounding, and hustle.

  Rick Barry

  Basketball, Team, Nba

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• Well, (Michael) Jordan was definitely one of the kings of the game. There's no question that he was one of the more dominant figures. If you look at the top ten players of all time, he was certainly one of the most dominant guys.

  Dominique Wilkins

  Basketball, Kings, Player

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• Light and subject is inseparable. But when it is well integrated, it becomes the work of a fine masterpiece.

  Paul Chong Hasang

  Black And White, Light, Fine

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• Freshness is important. If a game is fresh, new, intriguing, challenging, and enchanting, it will sell, and sell well.

  Roberta Williams

  Games, Challenges, Important

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• You might as well baptize a bag of sand as a man, if not done in view of the remission of sins and getting of the Holy Ghost. Baptism by water is but half a baptism, and is good for nothing without the other half-that is, baptism of the Holy Ghost.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Men, Views, Water

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• Principle of "Christian love": it insists upon being well paid in the end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Christian, Principles, Ends

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs.

  John F. Kennedy

  Education, Money, Long

  "John F. Kennedy: 1961 : containing the public messages, speeches, and statements of the president, January 20 to December 31, 1961" by John F. Kennedy, Washington: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1962.

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• This is about putting education absolutely in the centre of enterprise and then using the traditions of Birmingham to inspire and grow. If you have knowledge and business linked together you will grow well, you go further down the innovative path and actually you create more and more jobs. Those jobs will only be available for people with skills but they will be real sustainable employments. That is how important innovation is.

  Digby Jones, Baron Jones of Birmingham

  Jobs, Real, College

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• A weak mind sinks under prosperity, as well as under adversity.

  Julius Charles Hare

  Adversity, Mind, Prosperity

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.211

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• Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others concerned with him have done evil! If a man has acted right, he has done well, though along; if wrong, the sanction of all mankind will not justify him.

  Henry Fielding

  Sorry, Men, Evil

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• Hate always sells well, but for repeat trade and the long pull happiness is sounder merchandise.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Hate, Long, Hatred

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• If you wish me well, do not stand pitying me, but lend me some succour as fast as you can; for pity is but cold comfort when one is up to the chin in water, and within a hair's breadth of starving or drowning.

  Aesop

  Hair, Water, Wish

  Aesop (1850). “Fables of AEsop and others”, p.300, Printed for J.F. and C. Rivington [and 18 others] ...

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• The biggest concern with female athletes is they don't naturally compete. And so I think a part of what we do here exceptionally well that separates us from other programs is we train them to compete. So a huge challenge in women's athletics is to get them to compete against their teammates and friends in practice with the same intensity they compete with their bitter rivals. So that's a huge challenge for me, to get the women in practice to go after each other the way you would a rival

  Anson Dorrance

  Volleyball, Athlete, Thinking

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• You have to work hard AND well. There are a lot of people who work hard but not well.

  Jose Mourinho

  Volleyball, Hard Work, People

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• I want my team to be more detached from the wins and losses and be more focused on doing the little things well. When you focus on getting the win, it can suffocate you, especially during the playoffs when the pressure gets thick.

  Sue Enquist

  Softball, Team, Loss

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• I am a lefty, though I bat right-handed... When I was a kid I pitched, played first, outfield and shortstop as well. Now it's mainly softball with some friends.

  Josh Charles

  Softball, Kids, Firsts

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.

  Sandy Koufax

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.

  Venus Williams

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• A young man fills out an application for a job and does well until he gets to the last question, "Who Should we notify in case of an accident?" He mulls it over and then writes, "Anybody in sight!"

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Witty, Jobs

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• If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Done, Action

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• I can't sing very well but I'd like to try.

  Elvis Presley

  Witty, Trying, I Can

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• It is my opinion that a man's soul may be buried and perish under a dung-heap, or in a furrow field, just as well as under a pile of money.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Witty, Money, Peace

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “The Blithedale Romance”, p.294, Broadview Press

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• The end of a man's life is often compared to the winding up of a well written play, where the principal persons still act in character, whatever the fate in which they undergo.

  Joseph Addison

  Character, Fate, Destiny

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Francis Prévost, Francis William Blagdon (1833). “The Spectator, in Miniature: Being the Principal Religious, Moral, Humourous, Satirical and Critical Essays, in that Publication Compressed Into Two Volumes”, p.212

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