Nikola Tesla Quotes
The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
Quotes to Explore
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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I have to start with elements of myself, which is what you always do as an actor.
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I like to stay home a lot. I like to do other things too, like decorate or build.
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It gives a different kind of high when, as an actor, I get to submit myself to the character I play.
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When a story is flying along, and I'm so into it that my 'real' world goes away, it can feel magical. I cease to be, my desk and computer ceases to be, and I am my character in his world. Psychologists call this a 'flow state,' and it's better than publication, money, awards, fame.
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I don't believe in politics; I don't understand any of it.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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Mostly for social media, Twitter or Instagram becomes so much more fun when you can be boastful and say whatever you want. You can be so full of yourself and ridiculous when you're a heel.
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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Many a man may look respectable, and yet be able to hide at will behind a spiral staircase.
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Freedom was a word that everyone mentioned but none of us knew. There wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.
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Estoy en el ayer, en el hoy. ¿Y en mañana? En el mañana estuve.
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Children didn't shield families from eviction: They exposed them to it.
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As a writer, I'm always aware of the fact that there are so many books out there.
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There are crowds who trample a flower into the dust without thinking once that they have one of the sweetest thoughts of God under their heel.
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I would argue that religion comes from a desire to get to the questions of, 'Where do we come from?' and 'How shall we live?' And I would say I don't need religion to answer those questions.
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My mother often mailed me articles from 'Reader's Digest' about advances in DNA chemistry. No matter how I tried to explain it to her, she never grasped the concept that I could have been writing those articles, that something I had invented made most of those DNA discoveries possible.
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Death doesn't frighten me, it bothers me. It bothers me for example that someone can be there tomorrow but me I am no longer there. What bothers me is no longer being alive, not being dead.
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The desire that guides me in all I do is the desire to harness the forces of nature to the service of mankind.
