Charles Proteus Steinmetz Quotes
I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
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In '94, we made the deal during collective bargaining that wasn't the right deal, just to save the season. Allowing the 'in the crease' rule, the foot-in-the-crease rule, we should have not done.
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I don't know how anyone could stop working.
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I'm always writing and learning. It's about growth. So I'm growing as a musician, as a guitarist.
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In L.A., I get a meal delivery service called Diet Designs. I like a nice butter lettuce salad with some avocado, fresh grapefruit, shredded chicken breast and raw almond slices with a sesame vinaigrette dressing. I also love juicing and am kind of obsessed with it.
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I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
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And sometimes you have to go above the written law, I believe.
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Playing music for as long as I had been playing music and then getting a shot at making a record and at having an audience and stuff, it's just like an untamed force... a different kind of energy.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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I write in a rush of memory.
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I've learned that, as an actor, I have a responsibility to my audience.
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I prefer to be hunted compared to the other way around... I don't know how you say it.
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In the West, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Justin Bieber are the face of their songs.
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The only limits are, as always, those of vision.
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The young is always there to replace what we call the old. That's the process, even in nature.
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I think the work on tax reform, the work that's being done on regulatory reform is very important. And just having a seat at the table, I think, is so important for business today as we think about what's going to benefit the economy of this country, how we're going to create great manufacturing jobs.
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You can watch a little bit of war from your nice living room - 30 seconds of what's going on in Syria - and when you've had enough, switch over to some celebrity programme. We live our life through screens and images in this way, and we don't know what is real or fake anymore. It doesn't matter.
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I don't think people who are bad people think they're bad people.
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All I wanted to do was create theater for us, for our generation, for the people of this planet. And it's so rare that the art that you are making is reaching a huge mass of people.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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The videos that I post every day are averaging 7 million views per day. And I post one of those a day. I spend an average of $200 a day to make that. The Disney show that I'm on, they spend $2 million over the course of five days to create one episode that gets 1.7 million views.
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Engineering is treated with disdain, on the whole. It's considered to be rather boring and irrelevant, yet neither of those is true.
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I don't really think in terms of the future of literature. I think literature will be around "forever" - but in a relatively niche way, like jazz and poetry, although probably more widely consumed than jazz and poetry since it's fundamentally a narrative form. And I think that's important and places like Word Riot and 'The New York Tyrant' and 'n+1' will be responsible for keeping it alive.
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I have succeeded in getting my actual work down to thirty minutes a day. That leaves me eighteen hours for engineering.
