Nikola Tesla Quotes
I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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One reason why so little is known about the German resistance is because it was never a united movement in the way that it was in France or Poland. It was simply too dangerous.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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I don't understand why women journalists always ask women about motherhood? It's far more important and interesting for women to talk about their work, their thoughts, their creativity and their individual identity.
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Many people have been getting too casual about climbing Everest. I forecast a disaster many times.
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If you are going to make a change, don't go halfway. Make it with conviction and stick with your new idea. Ignore the scoffers. Remember, it is a law of nature that if something is different you're going to be taunted, jeered, and told the world is flat. Let the doubters fall off the edge.
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I go out with my band six months of the year and the rest of them with the Blues Brothers.
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But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
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I'm from Georgia, and everybody gathers around food in the South.
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Things have changed. Now it's not the outward appearance, it's the inward man that I'm trying to change. And that's the message I bring to the people.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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'Doctor Who' is where my love of science fiction and fantasy started. I was introduced to it when I was 8, and I'm still an avid viewer.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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For publicity purposes, everything gets simplified, and the fact that I wear glasses and am somewhat bookish makes me a geek. That's fine; there needs to be a shorthand, but there are important geek traits that I don't really share.
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The imagination is not a talent of some men but is the health of every man.
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The simplest kind of decision is binary: that is, the question can be answered, in principle at least, by either yes or no.
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When you are clinically diagnosed with depression as a teenager, sometimes people don't understand it. You feel like you should be happy, especially when you have a very lucky upbringing, and you blame yourself.
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I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity and found no answer. Eighty years have gone by since and I still ask the same question, unable to answer it.
