Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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I know so many people who are so much better at it than I am, and I think I'm a goofier person rather than a serious, dramatic actress, so I probably belong in comedy.
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The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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You either get better, or you don't progress.
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The physical part of comedy is as hard as a lot of action movies. It scares me, but in a way that I like.
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The best players will play. That's the way it will always be.
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All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.
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The great apologist has to have lived large and wild. If he's going to kiss the world's boo-boos and make up, he'd better plant some bruises first. A master apologizer has to be a Lord Byron, a Rick in Casablanca, a Lee Atwater, anyway.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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In a way my reputation has become that of the curmudgeon.
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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If you're purely derivative in what you do, then you could very easily get lost along the way. But for me, I might want to even do something else for a while.
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When the gate drops, it's time to try and execute the best you can.
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Electricity generation still around 25 percent below war levels, and transmission undermined by looting and sabotage.
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If you make a street poster and literally paste it on the street in a city like New York, where it's such a mixed population and so densely populated, and it stays up for a full week and doesn't get covered up by something else or pulled down, you will have fifty thousand people who will have seen it. It will be the poorest of the poor - some homeless man who lives on the street will see it and probably appreciate it, or some businessman or landlord will see it. Everyone will see it. And whether or not they even realize that they saw it, on some level it's affecting their consciousness.
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Franklin Roosevelt said the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance to those who have much; it is whether we provide enough to those who have too little. This reconciliation package fails that test as well.
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There's a way to do it better - find it.
