Nikola Tesla Quotes

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• Fun is carefree. I am not carefree.

  

  Madeline Kahn
  • Carefree

• Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Man
  • Know
  • Capable

• All the body wants to do biologically is decompose. Once you die, it's, 'Let me out here! I'm ready to shoot my atoms back into the universe!'

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • Die
  • Universe
  • Body

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• The things that have really gotten confusing to me is how you balance the desires of your publishers to produce things on a schedule, and people are always sort of giving you ideas on what you should follow up with or how you should proceed next and things like that.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • People
  • Up
  • Giving

• I'm into my grime, hip-hop, dance, and house music.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Music
  • House
  • Dance

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• Michael Lewis has the amazing ability to take complex formulas and concepts and turn them into page-turners.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Amazing
  • Ability
  • Turn

• We had a great dramatic society in school, and that's where I first got exposure both as an actor and director.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Great
  • School
  • Society

• It is a pleasure to play under Jose Mourinho, and everything is OK. I learn every day. He is a normal coach. He speaks a lot with the players. I like it when the manager speaks a lot with you because it gives you confidence.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Day
  • Confidence
  • Learn

• Mumbai may not be my city. But it is my kind of city.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • May
  • City
  • Kind

• I don't necessarily like being defined by my profession.

  

  Karen Allen
  • Like
  • Being
  • Profession

• I'm going to college. I don't care if it ruins my career. I'd rather be smart than a movie star.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Movie
  • Career
  • College

• Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Care
  • Nothing
  • Loyalty

• In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Fun
  • Happy
  • Funny

• I'm excited about 'Luke Cage' with Michael Colter, who plays Luke Cage. I play the villain, Cottonmouth. It takes place in Harlem. It'll just be amazing for people to get to see an African-American superhero, which there weren't any when I was growing up.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I really love it in Belfast. I always stay in the most bombed hotel, the Europa!

  

  Gareth Gates
  • Always
  • Stay
  • Hotel

• I think we all have different moods - a nerd one day and cool the next. I think everyone has an inner geek, and I know I definitely do.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Different
  • Think
  • Day

• My main ambition as a gardener is to water my orange trees with gin, then all I have to do is squeeze the juice into a glass.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Water
  • Ambition

• You just try to find something that interests you, and particular something that interests you that's gonna consume you the way that these big movies just really eat you up.

  

  Tony Gilroy
  • Movie
  • Interest
  • Particular

• For me, there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Question
  • Answers
  • Bearer

• I think that no matter what you do, whether you rodeo, whether you work in an office, you work in the oilfield or you play music for a living, eventually if you do enough of it, the devil in the back of your head tries to turn it into work. You have to find new ways to make it new and make it exciting to keep that drive there.

  

  Cody Johnson
  • Trying
  • Play
  • Enough

• What the head thinks, should be examined critically in the heart and this right decision should be carried out by the hands. This should be the primary product of the educational process.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Heart
  • Decision

• All matter comes from a primary substance, the luminiferous ether.

  

  Nikola Tesla
  • Matter
  • Luminiferous
  • Primary Substance