Nikola Tesla Quotes
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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It's an error in judgment to bounce into starting a small business before you cash in on building a strong foundation.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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My mother helped me identify myself the way the world would identify me. Bloodlines didn't matter as much as how I would be perceived.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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Lara's done very well recently and I never had any doubts about the abilities of Lara or Waugh.
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I had a very thorough grounding in music; I'd grown up around songs. My parents listened to a lot of music. My dad was majorly into jazz, which was absolutely a big influence on me, even if it was more subconsciously as a kid.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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Ten years ago I said, you know, my goal is to be able to get food on the table. What I'm trying to say by that is trying to create a vibrant, capable and effective middle class. The quicker and stronger that we can be able to do this, the easier it is for political reform to move forward.
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At the end of the day, I want to be a teacher at a university, teaching film or acting.
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I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.
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That's the thing about marriage. It's a shell game we play with ourselves. We're the suckers and we have to lose, but we play anyway because we lie to ourselves that we can win.
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It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.
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To the trolls on the internet, I want to say: Get your head out of the computer. Go outside and walk around. Look at the people walking next to you. Look at your friends' friends and who they're interacting with. And just understand this is the world we live in. It's okay to like it.
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But I knew if I ran I'd never be able to sing, so I had to take my punishment.
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Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world.
