George Westinghouse Quotes
The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
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The British have always made terrible parents.
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I get horrified when I have to do table reads with the whole cast, because there's a lot of stuttering coming from me, so I have to do a lot of prep.
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The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.
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Acting had been a hobby that turned into a career, the directing was a hobby that turned into a career, and music just really allowed me to find another way to express myself. I started playing bass in November 1996, and by June 1998 I was doing my first live show.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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I'm very competitive but in a very nice way.
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Beijing Coma took me 10 years to finish.
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Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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In today's world, social media, people get judged so much by the last thing that happened, I almost feel, in a way, young people get to see that not only is it OK to fail - that's the way you get to championship success, whether it's sports or business or life.
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I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
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There is only one me.
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It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.
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My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.
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We've been on big fellow's shoulders the whole year. We expect him to help us get where we need to go, and that's to the finals. But we know he can't do it by himself. Man, he just turned 34.
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At the end of the day, love and compassion will win.
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I have always tried to stay current.
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The alternating current will kill people, of course. So will gunpowder, and dynamite, and whisky, and lots of other things; but we have a system whereby the deadly electricity of the alternating current can do no harm unless a man is fool enough to swallow a whole dynamo.
