Nikola Tesla Quotes
Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
Nikola Tesla
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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.
Bahman Ghobadi
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
Edith Wharton
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
Lady Gaga
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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.
Yu Chui Yee
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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.
Hamilton Jordan
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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.
J. B. Pritzker
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Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.
Napoleon Hill
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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.
Ed Miliband
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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.
Zeljko Ivanek
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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.
Olivier Martinez
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When I did 'Frankenstein,' the record company said, 'Now you can do 'Dracula' and 'Wolf Man' and we'll call the whole thing Monster Rock!' and I said, 'No, that's not going to happen, I'm not going to do that.' I kind of enjoy defying categorization. I love music in and of itself. I love the beauty of harmony and rhythm.
Edgar Winter
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I just really love being in my pajamas.
Rachel Bilson
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I started doing stand up when I was 19. Because I was underage at the time, at certain clubs I would be forced to wait outside until it was my time to go on stage. Then I would do my set, walk off, and be kicked out again.
Anna Akana
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For me, love must be ugly, looks must be divine, and death must be beautiful.
Salvador Dali
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Your soul is a seeker, lover and artist; shape-shifting through archetypal energy, between your darkness and fields of light, your body and spirit, your heaven and hell, until you land in the moment of sweet surrender; when you, as a dancer, disappear into the dance.
Gabrielle Roth
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The surface is all you get of me.
Gary Hume
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Expression without culture is flat. Many artists come out of art school and start doing things that don't last. They are audacious because of ignorance. They are irresponsible.
Fernando Botero
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Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price.
Nikola Tesla