Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot Quotes
The maximum of motive power resulting from the employment of steam is also the maximum of motive power realizable by any means whatever.
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There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.
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Of course I get hurt.
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Without stirring abroad, One can know the whole world; Without looking out of the window One can see the way of heaven. The further one goes The less one knows.
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As with any moderately famous person, footballers are the source of much gossip. In fact, I'd go as far as to say they are targeted. The fun part as their partner is not knowing who, or what, to believe.
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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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I mean, I can sit down with a guitar, and in fact, we do two, three songs with just guitar and percussion.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
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I remember seeing 'Gremlins' and having my mind blown and seeing 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off' at 13, and it was this hugely aspirational experience.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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I get this anxiety in cities and places like that. When you grow up in kind of a small town and when you grow up around a lot of green and trees and nature and that sort of thing, sometimes I think it's a little mentally disconcerting to be around this concrete.
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I keep all my clothes on in House on Haunted Hill, Mary Jane's Last Dance, and The Way of the Gun.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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Mumbai's infectious. Once you start living in Mumbai, working in Mumbai, I don't think you can live anywhere else.
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Art is observing society around you, representing it through your eyes.
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When I was a young kid, my father was a big fan of Hollywood movies. He would make me watch movies with him, and he would explain the story and characters to me.
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To a visitor who described himself as a seeker after Truth the Master said, 'If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.' 'I know. An overwhelming passion for it.' 'No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.'
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You can't get a degree at Tisch College. It serves as an amplifier for what your focus is. If you're an engineer, you can take courses on understanding how to move a river in Africa to bring hydroelectric power to a community.
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The maximum of motive power resulting from the employment of steam is also the maximum of motive power realizable by any means whatever.
