Lee De Forest Quotes
You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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I was fortunate enough to get an author-backed role in Aamir Khan starrer 'Talash.'
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Social interactions have always been a bit of a difficult thing for me. I think I have a natural tendency to make people not 100 percent super comfortable.
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The men who founded and governed Massachusetts and Connecticut took themselves so seriously that they kept track of everything they did for the benefit of posterity and hoarded their papers so carefully that the whole history of the United States, recounted mainly by their descendants, has often appeared to be the history of New England writ large.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.
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A man's motive in the small actions of daily life, like resting a moment on his pitchfork in the sun and listening intently, may be the most important thing about that man.
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I'm process-orientated. Awards, by their nature, are results-orientated.
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We panic if there's two centimeters of snow in London.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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No matter how frustrated, disappointed and discouraged we may feel in the face of our failures, it's only temporary. And the faster you can stop wallowing in guilt, blame or resentment, the faster you can put it behind you.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I won't be happy until we have every boy in America between the ages of six and sixteen wearing a glove and swinging a bat.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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I'm a man without a corporation.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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I had been a real problem child, but once I got into acting, my parents never had any more trouble with me because all of that energy was directed in a positive way.
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I was timid and frightened as a child. Yours truly did not shin up mountains or do any other kind of adventurous stuff.
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No matter who uses chemical weapons against people and organisations, the international community must formulate a common policy and find a solution that would make the use of such weapons impossible for anyone.
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You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.
