Alexander Graham Bell Quotes
First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
Quotes to Explore
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I think a captain is someone who captains on the cricket field but, most of the leadership that happens is off the cricket field. It's very easy to captain people on the cricket field, but if you can start leading them off the cricket field, and show them that trust, what you have in them.
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I'm not on all the time. I like to have fun and be funny, but I'm much more of a thinker.
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To make the people happy, to forget their problems. Then, to me, I'm doing my job. But to act is a God gift.
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It's best to love your family as you would a Siberian tiger-from a distance, preferably separated by bars.
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I will fight for you, yes, and you will fight for me. And if you have sacrificed joy and courage and beauty and wisdom for my sake, I will give them all to you again; and yet you must also give them to me, for they are things in which without you I am wanting. But together we can make them.
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The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
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Men haven't changed their behaviour, so women somehow have to be strengthened to be able to ward off the men.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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What I wear is everything - from how I carry my hair to what I'm wearing on my feet. I have to feel comfortable on stage, so I like to wear things that have room. My mood changes a lot, so sometimes I wear 6-inch heels, and other times I'll perform in bare feet.
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Whatever you are, you have the right to get married.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has taken American politics by storm.
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'The prison' begins well before its doors. It begins as soon as you leave your house - and even before.
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I'm very keen on having true freedom of expression. True freedom of faith. And free practice of religious faith.
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I remember something Clint Eastwood told me early on. I don't remember how old I was when you told me this, Dad. But you said, "As an actor, I never went back to my trailer. I always hung out on set and learned." That stuck with me.
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The inclusion of consequences in the conception of what we have done is an acknowledgement that we are parts of the world, but the paradoxical character of moral luck which emerges from this acknowledgement shows that we are unable to operate with such a view, for it leaves us with no one to be.
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Howard Hughes himself was a regular at the restaurant, and in a way it became his headquarters, too. Howard had recently relocated to Las Vegas, so when he wanted to do business in Los Angeles, he went into the back of our restaurant to use the telephone.
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First words on the first telephone - "Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you."
