Nikola Tesla Quotes
It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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The less food, the more time to talk, the more to talk about.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Since beginning my work in areas like addiction, for example, I have seen time and time again that the roots of poor mental health in adulthood are almost always present in unresolved childhood challenges.
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A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up.
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I don't want to be disrespectful of the president of the United States, but as a political person, one of the things I appreciated about this president, in the past year especially, is he is a fantastic candidate.
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There are always people who will - who will do peculiar things and think that they are doing things in the name of their religion.
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There will never be a replacement for that ongoing physical contact. But I don't think blogging is meant to replace the face-to-face of friendships and meetings. Blogging is a way to keep in touch with a larger group of people on an ongoing basis, in a more efficient way.
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I'm a pretty cliche actor in that I hate watching myself on film.
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Humanity has experienced many revolutionary changes over the course of history: revolutions in agriculture, in science, industrial production, as well as numerous political revolutions. But these have all been limited to the external aspects of our individual and collective lives.
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I think you can tell when someone is being dishonest as an actor.
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My songs are about who I am.
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Men are, in fact, either sustained by organization or they sustain organization.
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I think it's important that the rest of the world know that we're not all the same and that we don't all have the sort of arrogance it feels like they're perceiving from our leaders.
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If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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The eye of the trilobite tells us that the sun shone on the old beach where he lived; for there is nothing in nature without a purpose, and when so complicated an organ was made to receive light, there must have been light to enter it.
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It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature.
