Michael Faraday Quotes
Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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I was in art school since I was five years old. I've always been to art school. Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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I studied music at the most remedial level when I was a kid, through the Los Angeles public schools, with a little private instruction.
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What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
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The pace of television is very different from film.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I think if you're everyone's cup of tea, that probably means you're a little bit boring, or you're not pushing yourself. Creativity happens where it's dangerous and scary: where you're not comfortable.
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
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The ultimate goal of therapy... it's too hard a question. The words come to me like tranquility, like fulfillment, like realizing your potential.
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This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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The worst thing you can do if you want to start a fight is to use derogatory terminology.
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I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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Poetry is the ultimate democracy.
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I'm lucky because I remember my dad showing me 'Independence Day,' and I loved it.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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I've never been fired in my life.
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Lectures which really teach will never be popular; lectures which are popular will never really teach.
