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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'Moonlight' changed me. To see people so moved by this movie inspires me to find something else to offer. And maybe the next one touches only five people or maybe just one person. To me, you know, that would still be worth it.
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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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We daily witness the beneficial effect produced to the community by the institution of premiums, held out to encourage the inventions of ingenious mechanics.
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So if a Christian is touched only once a year, the touching is still worth it, and maybe on some given Christmas, some quiet morning, the touch will take.
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There is always a conflict and that even increases as I get older. I have to be on my guard not to oversimplify things, but you can hardly deny that architecture is physical presence.
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A woman can be over dressed but never over elegant.
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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.
