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.
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I'm not on fire for the Lord, so I tried to make myself generate this fire for the Lord.
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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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All great things are done for their own sake.
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Above all things, respect yourself.
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There are thousands of years in the past, and there is an unknown amount of time in the future. There are all kinds of opportunities, and there are all kinds of dangers.
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Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
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We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality.
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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.
