Nikola Tesla Quotes
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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Every moment of light and dark is a miracle.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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I start the day with either Radio 3 or Radio 4. I don't watch any daytime television at all.
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I'm getting better, happier, and nicer as I grow older, so I would be terrific in a couple of hundred years time.
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Every education law should be based around the question, 'Is this good for children?' And it's not.
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Not much is done to promote non-cricket sports in India. There is a lot of talk about how sports needs to reach the grassroots and how it should be introduced as a subject in school, but nothing has been done to that effect.
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To be fair, I did come out of nowhere. 'Ghost' was the first song I ever did in a studio, my first time ever cutting a professional vocal.
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The end of a story must be stronger rather than weaker than the beginning, since it is the end which contains the denouement or culmination and which will leave the strongest impression upon the reader.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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I try to look at people like Adele and Norah Jones, who are very successful but don't have to deal with scandals.
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That's what I always liked about science fiction - you can make the world end. Humour is my multiple warhead delivery system.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.
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The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part and the possessive impulses the smallest.
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I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
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A man would still do something out of sheer perversity - he would create destruction and chaos - just to gain his point...and if all this could in turn be analyzed and prevented by predicting that it would occur, then man would deliberately go mad to prove his point.
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As a science fiction fan, I had always assumed that when computers supplemented our intelligence, it would be because we outsourced some of our memory to them. We would ask questions, and our machines would give oracular - or supremely practical - replies.
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The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
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Use your brain, not your endurance.
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My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe.