Lord Kelvin Quotes
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I have a Lamborghini Diablo. I have Mercedes 600, a 500, a 300, a 190. I have a Ferrari Testarossa, a Porsche speedster.
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.
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I didn't dictate sections of 'Visions of Cody.' I typed up a segment of taped conversation with Neal Cassady, or Cody, talking about his early adventures in L.A.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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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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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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Look back, and smile on perils past.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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It is so funny because I was always embarrassed because I never had formal training in acting.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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We are never racist against somebody who is very far away. I don't know any racism against the Eskimos. To have a racist feeling, there must be an other who is slightly different from us - but is living close to us.
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They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.
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I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.
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Searching for a lost city is a particularly European obsession.
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I avoid flying Ryanair if I can. I know that everyone gives them a hard time, but there's a good reason for that.
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By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
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Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
