Thomas A. Edison Quotes
His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Quotes to Explore
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Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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What if you could radically alter the way stories get told? What if the way people wanted to consume content actually changed what you could make?
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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Lately I've been feeling like 50 percent of the great content I read comes from Twitter conversations.
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There are two kinds of people on this Earth: Those who are content and those who are not.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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An understanding of Sor Juana's work must include an understanding of the prohibitions her work confronts. Her speech leads us to what cannot be said, what cannot be said to an orthodoxy, the orthodoxy to a tribunal, and the tribunal to a sentence.
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All these big corporations like Amazon, those places have great distribution arms, but they can't create content.
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There's an entire universe in every single tweet, and it all really depends on the content as far as how it's going to spread.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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I do love the clothes on 'Mad Men' because my character has been so elegant and I would never have had access to these clothes. I think Janie Bryant is a costume designing genius. They'll call and tell me, 'It will only take an hour,' and I'm like, 'I will try on the whole truck!'
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Netflix is distributed in 50 countries around the world. It's an incredibly affordable, well-distributed product that gives anyone with access to the Internet and a screen access to content in a very affordable way.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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I love having a lot of content. I prefer to have constant stimulation.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, the happy highways where I went and cannot come again.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.
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If…if I had his education, Kantaylis thought, surprised at the sudden intensity of the desire. If I could I’d study this business, read up on it, read all there is to be read about it.
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A puppet that starts to improvise badly is almost funnier than the puppet that's improvising well. So the show gets better when the improvising is really good, but also the show can also sometimes get better when the improvising sort of goes a little wrong and that's sort of a blessing to improvising with puppets.
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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
