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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Speaking from personal experience, I think that losing the sense of free will has only improved my ethics - by increasing my feelings of compassion and forgiveness, and diminishing my sense of entitlement to the fruits of my own good luck.
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As a visible and outspoken trans woman myself, I know that it's rare not to have your trans-ness lead the way for you in public spaces.
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I've been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyone's tempted by my sweet bait. I've also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and I've been covering other 'upcoming' authors’ books with mine.
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I credit my collaborators for allowing me to grow. Without them I wouldn't have that opportunity.
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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.
