Nikola Tesla Quotes
The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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When you're in trouble, all you need is your bank card and passport, and you're fine.
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I've been a war reporter and a human rights defender. A professor and a columnist. A diplomat and - by far most thrillingly - a mother. And what I've learned from all these experiences is that any change worth making is going to be hard. Period.
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Without a doubt, I'd love to do Broadway. I actually can't wait to get back to musical theater.
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The U.S. has spent billions of dollars on educating and supporting teachers or developing curricula but no resources are applied to 'improving the brain' that a student brings to the classroom.
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I like school very much, and I'll go to college if my career slows down. But kids go to college to be where I am today. Not to put college down, but for me, it would be digressing.
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Not all children have the anchor of a strong family.
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When I was a kid, I wanted desperately to be a jazz musician. I would practice the trumpet for hours, but when I got braces, that messed up my ability to play, so all of a sudden I had all this free time.
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O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. I thought that this electric typewriter was about the most fascinating toy in the world - I liked the little bell and the sounds and the feel of the keys and especially the erase key.
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Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because she's had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
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I was this non-threatening funny guy who contrasted the image of the Brezhnevs and the Reagans of the world.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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I like fighters who come to fight.
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I'm addicted to the hotel life. It's humbling and fly at the same time.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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My grandmother had a courtyard of animals, like goats and chickens. She made ricotta cheese, cooked with potatoes warm from the garden, grew everything from beans to wheat. It was simple, seasonal food, and we all ate what was produced 10 miles from where we lived. It was that way for centuries.
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When it comes to English stand-up comedy, Indians have only seen the best - Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby and the like. So, when someone claims to be an English stand-up comedian in India, he'd better be very good if he's going to make a life of it.
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When my husband is away and I'm by myself, my neighbours will insist I eat with them every single night because they see it as unhealthy to eat by yourself.
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One of the most important tools in critical thinking about numbers is to grant yourself permission to generate wrong answers to mathematical problems you encounter. Deliberately wrong answers!
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The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
