Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
Quotes to Explore
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Producing food to eat is the single most destructive environmental activity humans engage in.
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I'm not a trash talker. I respect my opponents.
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It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.
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A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.
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Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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'Make You Miss Me' is an important song to me. Having it go No. 1 as the fifth single off of my first record is the cherry on top of a chapter in my life I'll never forget.
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Every idea has its time.
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The creative process is not like a situation where you get struck by a single lightning bolt. You have ongoing discoveries, and there's ongoing creative revelations. Yes, it's really helpful to be marching toward a specific destination, but, along the way, you must allow yourself room for your ideas to blossom, take root, and grow.
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Teachers make a difference in individual students' lives, yet they do not get the respect they deserve.
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Self-respect, the value of 'face,' is universal but is most pronounced in China, then in Japan where the Confucian ethic is most influential.
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Conservatives were sure that if you eliminated welfare for single moms, it would eliminate - or at lease greatly reduce - single motherhood. So in 1996 we had welfare reform. Did not change the trend in the least. Soon half of all babies will be born out of wedlock.
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Don't see the point in reading ghost-written autobiographies, even though some of these published lives may fascinate me. The 'ghost' is always present, manipulating an interview into first-person singular text, and it feels like I'm reading a lie.
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With respect to the first of these obstacles, it has often been made a matter of grave complaint against Political Economists, that they confine their attention to Wealth, and disregard all consideration of Happiness or Virtue.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
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A child who has been taught to respect the laws of God will have little difficulty respecting the laws of men.
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Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.
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I am an instigator of the national energies.
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I never felt ready to have a baby until I was about 37 years old. I knew I always wanted kids someday, but I needed to be 'ready,' ya know?
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I have far more respect for the person with a single idea who gets there than for the person with a thousand ideas who does nothing.
