Nikola Tesla Quotes
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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For man also, in health and sickness, is not just the sum of his organs, but is indeed a human organism.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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I draw pleasure in governance, in doing new things and bringing people together. That pleasure is all I need from life.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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I don't read the critics.
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I don't tweet because I don't need another creative venue. I don't need another form for self-expression. I don't need another way to get my thoughts out to people. I have one. I'm good.
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Politics is my hobby. Smut is my vocation.
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For every $10 you reduce the price of the smartphone, 100 million more people will buy them.
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English writing tends to fall into two categories - the big, baggy epic novel or the fairly controlled, tidy novel. For a long time, I was a fan of the big, baggy novel, but there's definitely an advantage to having a little bit more control.
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'The Ballad of Black Tom' was written, in part, during the latest round of arguments about H. P. Lovecraft's legacy as both a great writer and a prejudiced man. I grew up worshipping the guy, so this issue felt quite personal to me.
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If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.
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I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.
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What Joe Wilson did is like a belch.
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20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.
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I was convinced - and I am so still - that the fundamental principles of Christianity have to be proved true by reasoning, and by no other method. Reason, I said to myself, is given us that we may bring everything within the range of its action, even the most exalted ideas of religion. And this certainty filled me with joy.
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One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way.
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It's almost impossible to be funnier than the people in Washington.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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Lincoln merely nominally freed the bodies of Negroes. But Debs would free the bodies and minds of Negroes.
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America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce in the world.
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Where You are, Lord I am free, holiness is Christ in me.
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Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences.
