Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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I really miss things like going to football games and pep rallies, and when I come home to Tulsa, I always try to go to those things.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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I only got interested in radio once I talked my way into an internship at NPR's headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1978, never having heard the network on the air.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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I had rather be called a journalist than an artist.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I'm just trying to approach what I make with as much respect and research as I can, and just make it with a good heart.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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My mom is probably the only person shorter than me that I'm scared of. Still to this day. She's, like, five-two, maybe.
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That radio was very important for me. It meant I always knew what was going on in the world.
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My philosophy is to use the stones hurled at me to make a bridge for myself; I believe in proving my critics wrong through my work. I keep saying, the more muck you throw at me, the brighter will the BJP lotus bloom. That is the nature of the lotus, it rises out of keechhad (slush) to create exquisite beauty.
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I've always emulated her work ethic because she was one of the few skaters that didn't lose her temper, that would have a bad day, but have a great attitude, come back and try again. That was a huge lesson for me to learn.
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Work while others are wishing.