#nothin

There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection. ↗

— H. G. Wells

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In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body. ↗

— Venus Williams

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Almost nothing is presented to you on a silver platter. You have to really work for it. ↗

— Katarina Witt

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Slashing its way to the finish line, 'Black Swan' is the first ballet movie for highbrow horror fans for whom ballet itself signifies little to nothing. Those of us who know and love ballet can only look on it with a different kind of horror. ↗

— James Wolcott

#black #different #different kind #fans #finish

Sometimes when I visit my sister and her two children, I wonder if she missed a lot by getting married. Right now, nothing could be further from my mind than getting married. ↗

— Natalie Wood

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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. ↗

— Elijah Wood

#fellow #fellow men #former #lies #men

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#greatness #help #liberates #like #nothing

We began to do little things, have little scenes where we just talked about things that had nothing to do with the plot. In fact, in the beginning, they didn't want us to do that. But as time went on, you see that in so many shows. I think we were the first to do that. ↗

— Don Knotts

#began #beginning #fact #first #had

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#anything #architecture #both #course #ecstatic

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. ↗

— Dean Koontz

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