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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So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim.
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Little things do make a difference. Can you imagine a world without butterflies?
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There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you.
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The Head of Story is defined differently for each film. But I found that the role for me was to support the director's vision, and to be a conduit to the story team - and managing that team to realize the vision.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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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.
