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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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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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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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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And he still thinks, in the little bit of his head that's still him, that he's not a zombie. That he's not dead, that there's a threshold he hasn't stepped over. But he crossed it long time ago.
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When I was younger, I'd go to the Museum of Television and Radio in New York and watch this beautiful clip of Billie Holiday playing with a bassist, a pianist and Gerry Mulligan, who was a friend of mine, on baritone sax. At one point, she looks over at Gerry, and they just smile. When those moments happen, it's just lovely.
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We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.
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What affected me most profoundly was the realization that the sciences of cryptography and mathematics are very elegant, pure sciences. I found that the ends for which these pure sciences are used are less elegant.
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But I do believe that in all my shows, I really enjoy the quirky, the eccentric characters, the ones you don't meet every day.
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Kindness in words creates confidence.
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Samuel smiled at me. 'Freedom and fairness are very important to you, aren't they?' I nodded, and frowned. 'They're important to everybody.' He laughed. 'Oh, no, Anita, you would be amazed at the number of people who try to give away their freedom at every opportunity. They much prefer that someone else make their decisions.'
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My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe.
