Nikola Tesla Quotes
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I keep waiting for a paradigm shift to happen that will let network and studio execs see that sci-fi is the same as any other genre in terms of how you approach it - logically, character-based, with challenging ideas and forward thinking - but I worry that it might never happen in my lifetime.
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But Charlie, Charlie, how can we ever really know anything? Charlie, what or who is God?
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With couture, you feel obligated to design something modern each season, but with Theyskens Theory, I don't question anything. I'm thinking of what I'd like to wear.
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
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My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
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People did not even then like to eat dirt, if they could see it.
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Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis, no Shiites, just sport for the country.
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The State of Israel is a state that was formed before the people were even in it. You have to understand: In India, in Burma, in Pakistan - all of the people were already there. Their problem was for the English to leave so they could be independent.
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I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
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You can be accessible without catering to an audience.
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I know that Bush, for political reasons, is going to nominate a minority, a Hispanic man or someone where it will be harder for people on the progressive side to oppose and split some of the traditionally progressive or democratic constituents.
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Who is a terrorist? Is it not the person who has been persecuting human beings simply because they are black?
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I can create for others.
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When you're playing a fictional character reacting to the real world, it's incredibly difficult and confusing and kind of messes with your values a bit.
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What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.
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I'm strictly for Adlai Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you man, he knows the most.
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As long as I can remember, I have suffered because of the great misery I saw in the world. I never really knew the artless, youthful joy of living, and I believe that many children feel this way, even when outwardly they seem to be wholly happy and without a single care.
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My entrance to music was singing gospel in church, and to hear that gospel language in a hip-hop song was cool.
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I used to have a lovely Chelsea loft - then I got divorced.
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Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy.
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I used to hunt as a child but gave up the chase in my 'Ho Ho Ho Chi-Minh, we shall fight and we shall win' chanting and marching days - by which time I had come to share Oscar Wilde's feelings about 'the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.'
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I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural born sense, and not on law, learning to guide me; for I had never read a page in a law book in all my life.
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We're very concerned with language and how language works. We're trying to engage people rather than dictate how they should be thinking.
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I have always been ahead of my time.
