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Elon Musk Quotes

My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

Elon Musk

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businessman
Nationality: south african
Birth: June 28, 1971

Topics

Father Me Economics Engineering Up

Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.

Jim James

Power Together Will Human Out Still

Well-reported news is a public good; bad news is bad for everyone.

Jill Lepore

Good Bad News Everyone Bad News

I think Noam Chomsky is a national treasure - make that an international treasure.

Jello Biafra

Think Treasure Make I Think National

Music is the only language in which you cannot say a mean or sarcastic thing.

John Erskine

Music Language You Say Mean Cannot

The one guiding principle over my 23-year career in TV has been as long as I'm having fun, I really don't care what the job title is.

Andy Cohen

Job Fun Having Fun Care Long Career

I think I'm a very solitary person. To actually not be anonymous is a bit claustrophobic for me.

Ani DiFranco

Me Think Person Anonymous I Think

People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.

Anjelah Johnson

Character People Me Black Doing Out

Going to church and stuff was just something I did with my mom.

Andy Mineo

Mom Church Something Going Stuff

I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.

Steve Lacy

Love Play Saxophone Piece Duke Fell

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.

Stanley Baldwin

Gentleman Intelligent Intelligentsia

I had seen cancer at a more cellular level as a researcher. The first time I entered the cancer ward, my first instinct was to withdraw from what was going on - the complexity, the death. It was a very bleak time.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Time Death First Time More First

Being in a relationship is a hard, painful slog at least once a week, maybe more often - especially if you have a lot of defenses to let down, or if your parents didn't know how to love you very well.

Tracy McMillan

Love Relationship Parents Week You