Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
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I'm a bit of a layman physics junkie. I don't really understand it, but I love trying to understand it.
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God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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I drove across country in my yellow 1970 VW bug (which I drove until 1986) to Los Angeles, having had enough cold weather in 5 years in Ann Arbor, and found a job within a few days.
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Puberty extends into your twenties, for sure, and some people don't get over that until much later in life. I feel like I'm just starting to get over puberty - basically twenty years of insufferable, totally self-obsessed hell.
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My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
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My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.
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In the case of 'The Deep,' because of the people involved, the talent and the real lives of people who died, I wanted to make the most honest film I could. And sometimes that's the best way to go: Just make the best version of the film you can.
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
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The delights of self-discovery are always available.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
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I am very lucky in that I can eat what I want and don't have to follow any special diet.
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Rather than allowing jihadists to shut down debate, it must proliferate so much that they simply cannot kill us all.
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Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.
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The tantra masters are simply wild flowers, they have everything in them.
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For poems are like rainbows; they escape you quickly.
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We are confident that our revolution has already succeeded and that the regime of Saleh has in effect, already collapsed.
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We don't have a laugh track, which helped Seinfeld a lot, and did kind of tell people when to laugh. It just made it a lot easier. Our show doesn't have that, so it's hard for Middle America to catch on.
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The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom.
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There's a terrible sense of dread filtering across America at the moment and it's not simply because of the continuing fear of terrorism and the fact that the nation is at war. It's more frightening than that. It grows out of the suspicion that we all may be passengers in a vehicle that has made a radically wrong turn and is barreling along a dark road, with its headlights off and with someone behind the wheel who may not know how to drive.
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I believe America's chief strategic vulnerability is our dependence on imported petroleum.
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It's amazing what a bit of soot and shaving can do for muscle definition, honestly.
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America is a country of inventors, and the greatest of inventors are the newspaper men.
