Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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Many people thought I would never succeed, because I am so Russian. So Russian, hundred percent.
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Being a model, you're always the product of somebody else's vision.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids.
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The thing that I think a lot of guys need to know how to do is not take your mother's advice about honesty being the best policy. Listen to your cool, drunk uncle who tells you to lie. Those are the relationships that last.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these freedoms must be our new cause, because without them, all of our causes are ultimately lost.
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I think that there is incredible prejudice about witches while there is no prejudice about wizards. Words are very important, and I'm really into destroying myths.
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Once I'm in a situation where I can not do anything for three years and go off the map, I'll focus more on writing. Right now, I want to just make Flume awesome... and big.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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'Power' is a funny thing. Maybe it's a show that draws people in because they are watching people do things they secretly wish they could do or know they could get away with.
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Do not imagine that what we have said of the insufficiency of our understanding and of its limited extent is an assertion founded only on the Bible: for philosophers likewise assert the same, and perfectly understand it,- without having regard to any religion or opinion.
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The key to America's economic future is educating kids as early in their lives as we can.
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I think I played in Lambeau maybe 14, 15 times. I've played there a lot of times. It's in the teens, double digit. I've had success on that field, won and lost.
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Communism is a monopolistic system, economically and politically. The system suppresses individual initiative, and the 21st century is all about individualism and freedom. The development of technology supported these directions.
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And I missed it by two feet. It makes me understand and appreciate what the ball does do on its way into the plate.
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Will it, and set to work briskly.
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When I pull into a city and I rent a car and it's Nashville, or it's London, or I'm driving in the taxi to the hotel, and on comes one of my songs, it's like, 'Oh my God, they're still playing these songs on the radio.' And you still feel tearful and very grateful that somebody still likes these songs that you made up.
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There is no substitute for hard work.
