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.Thomas A. Edison
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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.
Harold Prince -
I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.
Joanne Rowling -
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it.
Harland Williams -
Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.
Karl Marx -
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.
Abraham Pais -
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Walter Rauschenbusch -
Louis Armstrong playing trumpet on the Judgment Day.
Al Stewart -
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.
Gary Rossington Lynyrd Skynyrd -
I love catching, being involved in every pitch of the game; obviously, it beats you up both mentally and physically.
Joe Mauer -
There's a long tradition in this country of questioning generals.
Jake Tapper -
I remember being a kid - if a new member joined a group, I just didn't like that at all.
Lindsey Buckingham
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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.
Ander Crenshaw -
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.
Pope John Paul II -
If they give you good words to say, and you don't get in the way of them, you'll be OK.
Carol Kane -
My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited.
Brian Dennehy -
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.
Christien Meindertsma -
I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.
Drew Barrymore
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I am opposed to the privatization of the Veterans Affairs Department and will continue to make sure the VHA is fully funded.
Robert Wilkie -
The biggest problem in the fictional treatment of sex is that it's not treated as part of the story but as a pause from the story. The best sex scenes in fiction are the ones that advance the story.
K. M. Soehnlein -
During my 11-year coaching tenure, Saint Joseph's won or tied for the Big Five championship seven times, went to 10 postseason tournaments - including seven NCAA appearances - and reached the Final Four in 1961.
Jack Ramsay -
Happiness is not a noun or a verb. It's a conjunction. Connective tissue.
Eric Weiner -
The moral law of God is the only law of individuals and of nations, and nothing can be rightful government but such as is established and administered with a view to its support.
Charles Grandison Finney -
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.
Thomas A. Edison