Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
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I know what it takes, and you have to fight for yourself and what you believe in.
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I believe very strongly in the value of having a diverse team around me that comes from very different backgrounds and different points of view.
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I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.
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I never get scared making these kinds of movies because it's all make-believe, but I did cry when I saw the finished version of Man On Fire because it is so sad.
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God will not damn a lunatic's soul. He knows that the powers of evil are too great for those of us with weak minds.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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Whenever societies do well, they believe that there is something in their cultural DNA that made it happen.
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
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And I think maybe all women, if they just had a chance, would be romantic and believe in love and not sex. And men believe in sex and not love.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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Some people believe they chose homosexuality, and some believe they didn't. Who's to say one is wrong? It's not fair to generalize anyone's sexuality or walk of life.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
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I don't believe in just ordering people to do things. You have to sort of grab an oar and row with them.
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I believe that, as actors, we have a phenomenal platform to spread positivity and influence people in the same way.
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A soul occupied with great ideas performs small duties.
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We all, I think, believe in compassion. If you look at all the world religions, all the main world religions, you'll find within them some teaching concerning compassion.
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When 'Christians' cite the Bible as the basis for secular policies, they must explain why they believe Muslims in the Middle East are evil for doing the same with the Koran.
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I am more proud of Hillary Clinton's alt-right speech than any other moment on the campaign because she had the courage to stand up.
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Opera singing is in every way of inestimable value; a real heritage for all mankind that has been reached over centuries of studies, attempts, flights of the spirit.
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You retire, but you're still aching to play. But in order to play, you have to resist certain temptations, and train hard. And I just didn't have the desire to do that any more.
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I know that you cannot hate other people without hating yourself.
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I cannot believe in the immortality of the soul. No, all this talk of an existence for us, as individuals, beyond the grave is wrong. It is born of our tenacity of life - our desire to go on living - our dread of coming to an end.
