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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On the whole, it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.
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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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It has been a tumultuous journey, no doubt. But I feel blessed to have got work.
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I used to be called the "Green Jack Kemp" because of my promotion of entrepreneurial and work-based solutions for poor people.
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I'm the kind of guy that if I don't work out, I will get bigger and look like one of the guys who used to play sports.
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There's lots of incredible roles out there that I'd love to tackle, but there's a select group of actors I find myself gravitating towards, like Philip Seymour Hoffman or Sean Penn or Daniel Day-Lewis - real transformational actors.
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It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it.
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Work while others are wishing.
