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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We have a fee-for-service system that rewards quantity, not quality: profit-driven care rather than patient-driven care. So doctors order more tests, more procedures, and more drugs - we actually consume more prescription drugs in the U.S. than the rest of the world combined.
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In this industry, where things change so quickly, I've found that having no expectations is the happiest way to go.
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It might sound a small thing, but if you want to get Tom Cruise into your movie, without a track record or without those agents knowing you, it's almost impossible. Now I can get through to pretty much anyone I want. Of course, 90 per cent of the time they still say no.
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The influence of teachers extends beyond the classroom, well into the future. It is they who shape and enrich the minds of the young, who touch their hearts and souls. It is they who shape a nation's future.
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You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
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The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
