Michael Faraday Quotes
What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Food is everything. Food, friends, family: Those are the most important things in life.
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I've never left them to go do a film. No, we all go together. I could never leave them. My kids are my whole world.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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A Labour party is not a debating club, it is a party of action.
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I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would last and would not be superficial. Siberian-travel writing is its own genre.
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I started studying at 26. Before that, I never thought of acting as something that I would ever try.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I was raised by women. Now I'm raising women. I was always better around girls. I live in an all-female household. I even have two female dogs... It's funny how that turned out.
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Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers.
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They always say, 'Time heals.' But it really doesn't. You just get used to it. I live life with the mentality of 'OK, I lost the only thing that has ever been important to me.' So going forward, anything bad that happens can't be nearly as bad as what happened before.
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With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history.
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My father will never say no to a character, as I never go to him and talk about a character for which he won't give the nod.
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I'm a huge gamer.
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I make records all the time. But making records is not quite the same as getting them to the audience.
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To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form.
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I would say that most of my books are contemporary realistic fiction... a couple, maybe three, fall into the 'historic fiction' category. Science fiction is not a favorite genre of mine, though I have greatly enjoyed some of the work of Ursula LeGuin. I haven't read much science fiction so I don't know other sci-fi authors.
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We shouldn't accept things just because somebody says so.
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What a delight it is to think that you are quietly & philosophically at work in the pursuit of science... rather than fighting amongst the crowd of black passions & motives that seem now a days to urge men every where into action. What incredible scenes every where, what unworthy motives ruled for the moment, under high sounding phrases and at the last what disgusting revolutions.
