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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Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light.
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I'm quite physical. I'm from one of those dog-walking families where hiking up a mountain is meant to be fun.
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Step by step, let whatever happens happen. Real change will come when it is brought about, not by your ego, but by reality. Awareness releases reality to change you.
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The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore.
