Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.
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Anything worth doing is worth doing slowly.
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You could be worth $2 billion today and a half a billion tomorrow. It doesn't take much for this to disappear overnight.
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I'm potentially worth a lot of money, but I've got to go and make something that's worth a lot of money.
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I will just generalise it that anything that I find too disgusting is not worth an answer.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
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Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it's worth it. He's the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards.
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There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good.
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Something is worth what somebody will pay for it. Nothing else, nothing more, nothing less.
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Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.
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I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.
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A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
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Never be ashamed! There's some who'll hold it against you, but they're not worth bothering with.
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I learned to fire guns at the age of nine or so, but luckily was not out killing people. We zigzagged the streets to escape those trying to kill us. I guess it would have been a matter of time till I turned around with a gun myself, to go after those coming for us. But I was fortunate. The grenade incident was about an explosion which destroyed a section of my school, from a grenade that me and my cousin detonated by accident. We both lived to tell about it.
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It is much easier to drive without having an accident.
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He is dead already who doth not feel Life is worth living still.
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I can't tell you anything that is going to make you feel like we are going to turn it around. All I can say is we are still alive and we still have a chance. And that is worth fighting for.
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There needs to be passion behind what you're doing or it's not worth it.
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Only in a novel are all things given full play.
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Animals should have rights and should be treated with compassion and empathy; we are their caretakers. If you don't have it in your heart to help them, then just leave them alone and do no harm.
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Be as bold as the first man or woman to eat an oyster.
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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
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I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph.
