Elisha Gray Quotes
When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.
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When I look back, I am happy that my mum took me to the gymnastics club. I didn't join gymnastics to become a famous athlete or celebrity; it just happened - I did more than I expected, of course.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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But no, I'm still living in LA and haven't dropped off the face of the earth.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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I've committed to surfing the rest of my life.
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I live in New York. I don't really particularly want to move to LA.
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We must not let daylight in upon the magic.
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Sound-wise, I'm really limitless in the way I write songs. Whatever comes out, comes out. Every song is completely different.
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I want to be the first person to laugh at myself. It makes other people feel at ease - we're all on an even playing field.
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
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As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.
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I have the ordinary experience of being anonymous when I'm in an airplane talking to air-traffic control, and they don't know who they're talking to. I have a lot of common experiences.
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One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Scott King, have written the lead character I play as a fully formed man.
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In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.
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Except for cases of pathological incapacity, one can and must communicate, and thereby contribute in a useful and easy way to the peace of others and oneself, because silence, the absence of signals, is itself a signal, but an ambiguous one, and ambiguity generates anxiety and suspicion. To say that it is impossible to communicate is false; one always can.
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It's a leap of faith doing any serialised storytelling.
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But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said my mother, sadly. 'One always thinks that. Every, every time.
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When the uncultured man sees a stone in the road it tells him no story other than the fact that he sees a stone ... The scientist looking at the same stone perhaps will stop, and with a hammer break it open, when the newly exposed faces of the rock will have written upon them a history that is as real to him as the printed page.
