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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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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We have been using foreign affairs ministries to address security issues, but this practice is outdated. It's time to assign the handling of regional security to national organizations and expert institutions.
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
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“They remained silent, while the bronze tolling passed over their heads so powerfully that they seemed to hear it in the very roots of their hair like a quiver of their flesh.”
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As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always full.
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I went to see 'The Piano' with Holly Hunter when I was in a Paula Vogel play, and I was just gone. I couldn't focus at all. It took that creative part of my brain with it so absolutely.
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My brain is only a receiver, in the Universe.
