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• I don’t usually direct actors in the classic sense of that word. Instead, I try to remind the characters before the shoot what’s going on in a very simple way. I then watch them, their inventions as actors, approving or not approving what they’re doing.

  Gus Green Van Sant Jr.

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• To me, the smell of fresh-made coffee is one of the greatest inventions.

  Hugh Jackman

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• The art of an artist must be his own art. It is… always a continuous chain of little inventions, little technical discoveries of one’s own, in one’s relation to the tool, the material and the colors.

  Emil Nolde

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• A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

  Emily Greene Balch

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• My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.

  John Adams

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• I believe in human dignity as the source of national purpose, human liberty as the source of national action, the human heart as the source of national compassion, and in the human mind as the source of our invention and our ideas

  John F. Kennedy

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• Great discoveries and improvements invariably involve the cooperation of many minds. I may be given credit for having blazed the trail, but when I look at the subsequent developments I feel the credit is due to others rather than to myself.

  Alexander Graham Bell

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• Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work – the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.

  Vernor Vinge

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• I will ignore all ideas for new works on engines of war, the invention of which has reached its limits and for whose improvements I see no further hope.

  Sextus Julius Frontinus

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• These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

  Alfred Hitchcock

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• Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

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• I invented the cordless extension cord.

  Steven Wright

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• I’m more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

  Paul Simon

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  Everything is possible! Your dreams! Your ideas! Your inventions! Your vision! Never let anyone tell you “You can’t!”

  Unknown

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• I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success… Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything.

  Nikola Tesla

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