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Francis Ford Coppola quote: "I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent..."

I liked to work in a shop down in the basement and invent things and build gadgets.

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The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical. Carl Sagan
Albert Einstein quote: "If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time..."
If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Albert Einstein
It would be a poor result of all our anguish and our wrestling if we won nothing but our old selves at the end of it--if we could return to the same blind loves, the same self-confident blame, the same light thoughts of human suffering, the same frivolous gossip over blighted human lives, the same feeble sense of the Unknown towards which we have sent forth irrepressible cries in our loneliness. Let us rather be thankful that our sorrow lives in us as an indestructable force, only changing... George Eliot
Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' - 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea. Eugene O'Neill
Writing has nothing to do with meaning. It has to do with landsurveying and cartography, including the mapping of countries yet to come. Gilles Deleuze
More time on paperwork means less time spent with students or preparing lessons for students. It is as simple as that. The numerous reforms in the bill will go a long way to free our time of special educators. Christopher Bond
Well, maybe it's because of the rumors they had going around, you know, they had some rumors about Dennis Brown was in the hospital and all that. Well, that is all bull! Dennis Brown
Rudyard Kipling quote: "A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very..."
A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. Rudyard Kipling
Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. Bertrand Russell
Tom Waits quote: "I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately."
I've been riding on the crest of a slump lately. Tom Waits
Suzanne Collins quote: "The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my..."
The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my face. Suzanne Collins
Vaclav Havel quote: "Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is..."
Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs. Vaclav Havel
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. Thomas Carlyle
Penelope Lively quote: "You learn a lot, writing fiction."
You learn a lot, writing fiction. Penelope Lively
And what makes me happy now has changed as well... Its one thing to play in a bar or at a biker festival, and hear a guy who's been drinking beer all day come up and tell you how good you are. For a long time in your life that will make you happy. Rick Derringer