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'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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The left and the right live in parallel universes. The right listens to talk radio, the left's on the Internet and they just reinforce one another. They have no sense of reality. I have now one ambition: to retire before it becomes essential to tweet.
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In our development, as we grow throughout our lives, the structure of our beliefs becomes very complicated, and we make it even more complicated because we make the assumption that what we believe is the absolute truth.
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You must do nothing before him, which you would not have him imitate. If any thing escape you, which you would have pass as a fault in him, he will be sure to shelter himself under your example, and shelter himself so as that it will not be easy to come at him, to correct it in him the right way.
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The word mystical is an even worse word than spirituality - that artists take drugs, and then they add some crazy extra thing to what we all know is real. But our job as artists or as human beings is to investigate what we really think is real.
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Do not let the past disturb you, just leave everything in the Sacred Heart and begin again with joy.
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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.
