Thomas A. Edison Quotes
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.Thomas A. Edison
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
Baltasar Gracian -
If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
Victoria Wood -
The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
Barbara Windsor -
Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
Rahm Emanuel -
'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
Okky Madasari -
Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
Victor Hugo
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
M.I.A. -
You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
Naftali Bennett -
You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
Tagg Romney -
The keyboard is my journal.
Pharrell Williams N.E.R.D. -
On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.
Phil LaMarr -
My style overall is whatever is comfy, whatever I feel like wearing that day that I feel good in. I have some really classic pieces that I can dress up, dress down, wear to the movies or wear to a really nice dinner. And I love a really good leather jacket.
Jenna Ushkowitz
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The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Charles Tupper -
When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
James L. Brooks -
Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.
Anne Wojcicki -
Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
Leandra Medine -
Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.
Mary Quant -
Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.
Marvin Ammori
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The man of decision cannot be stopped! The man of indecision cannot be started! Take your own choice.
Napoleon Hill -
Marijuana legalization's income may help fund education, prevention and treatment programs for harder drugs. What's clear is that the four-decade-old U.S.-backed war on drugs is not working, and that it's producing tens of thousands of dead across the hemisphere, without significant gains in reducing consumption. Experimenting with new weapons to weaken the cartels may be better than doing nothing.
Andres Oppenheimer -
You're going to be much less likely to point the finger at somebody and create a huge brouhaha when it wasn't necessary if you had stopped and asked yourself, 'Could I have done things to prevent this situation?'
Benjamin Carson -
It's fun to take songs from a completely different context and reframe them. We did two mixtape albums called 'Other People's Heartache' and 'Other People's Heartache Pt. 2,' which were full of those kind of covers and mash-ups, mixed with film music and film quotes.
Dan Smith -
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.
Immanuel Kant -
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
Thomas A. Edison