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 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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Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.
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Even when we say nothing our clothes are talking noisily to everyone who sees us, telling them who we are, where we come from, what we like to do in bed and a dozen other intimate things.
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And one of the three great things in the world is gossip, you know. First there's religion; and then there's science; and there's-and then there's friendly gossip. Those are the three-the three great things.
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Do not imagine that an integral being has the ambition of enlightening the unaware or raising worldly people to the divine realm. To her, there is no self and other, and hence no one to be raised; no heaven and hell, and hence no destination.
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I firmly believe that if members of Congress fail to perform their most basic duty in passing a budget, then they do not deserve to be paid.
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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.
