Nikola Tesla Quotes
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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I was amazed at how the life of a freelancer differed from running a remote studio for another company. I thought I knew what I was doing in 2004 when I left Eidos because I had run Ion Storm Austin, which was my own independent studio. I had run a business unit inside Origin, but being part of a startup is crazy.
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If people knew how KFC treats its chickens, they'd never eat another drumstick.
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I find end-of-the-world stuff enthralling - to imagine how life will be in the future on Earth and in space!
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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Whenever I see the Hong Kong flag is flying in the sky, not because of anybody else, because of my efforts, I think it's the most proud time of my life.
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Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.
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I was in Vietnam, and I was exposed to Agent Orange. And there's a high relationship between people that were exposed to Agent Orange and the kind of lymphoma that I had. The prostate cancer was genetic in my family. My father had prostate cancer, my - three of my four uncles had prostate cancer.
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You know why I'm running for governor? Because everything we care about is under siege from President Donald Trump and Bruce Rauner.
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
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Think of how we challenged the impression that we taxed for its own sake and that we were hostile to business. We were right to change.
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The stuff that I find really intriguing is always how do ordinary people behave in extraordinary circumstances. And that's why we have a lot of cop shows and lawyer shows and medical shows is that you're looking for situations that just always heighten the stakes.
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Before, I was so stupid. But, you know, when you have friends who died on the street, you say, okay, let's calm down. It's not the kind of energy I want to have in life. I want to go slower, and longer.
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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.
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Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
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Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce.
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I think when a lot of actors hear improv, they think of throwing a line in or doing a slightly different take.
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If it is the mark of the artist to love art before everything, to renounce everything for its sake, to think all the sweet human things of life well lost if only he may attain something, do some good, great work - then I was never an artist.
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
