Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
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Lyrics can't do what they do - or should do - when you're creating a musical with rock lyrics. There's plenty of room for rock musicals, just not all rock musicals.
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I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
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The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
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Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
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I'm religiously opposed to religion.
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The socialism of continental Europe, taking it by and large, is actively hostile, not only to bad forms of organized religion, but to religion itself.
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Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
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We used to travel through Alabama a lot and get onto back roads and just marvel at how pretty it was and how nice the people were.
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I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.
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There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
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I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all.
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The exploration for oil and gas off our shores can play a role in making energy more affordable and accessible... However, effective safety measures must be in place, and exploration must be done in an environmentally sensitive manner that in no way interferes with our military.
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There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.
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If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.
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My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
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In soap, fatty acids made from boiling pork bone fat are used as a hardening agent, but also for giving it a pearl-like effect.
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I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.
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To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction.
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Whatever encourages people to become more interested in who they are and discovering who they are, as opposed to just accepting what people or things are saying what they are. That's fascinating to me.
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Human connection is the way things work. It's like a patronage system. You know somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows somebody, and he knows the district governor, and it's okay.
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Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.
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I have always consistently opposed high-tension and alternating systems of electric lighting...not only on account of danger, but because of their general unreliability and unsuitability for any general system of distribution.
