Thomas A. Edison Quotes
If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
Quotes to Explore
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I love to be in the moment. I love to analyse things a bit.
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I would say 'The Master' was one of the most inspiring things I've ever got to work on.
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Do all things with love.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I just write mechanical things.
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I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.
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Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked.
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With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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I don't let things go unless I'm ready for them to go.
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There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.
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Finding things to wear is what the Internet's for.
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Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.
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I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.
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Scoutmasters need to enter into boys' ambitions.
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If I were in a position to announce a public competition to coin a new word, I would do so right now.
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I tend to write songs that are about something pretty specific. A lot of them tell some kind of little made-up story.
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Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.
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Harry Belafonte hit me to the Dream Defenders and I liked what they were about. When I asked them how I could help their movement, they said, "You can help by coming down here; you can tweet."
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If I had not had so much ambition and not tried to do so many things, I probably would have been happier, but less useful.
