Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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I'm not even sure I have a style! All I know for sure is I don't want to look like everyone else.
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Often I look back and see that I had been many kinds of a fool-and that I had been happy in being this or that kind of fool.
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There is a lot of opportunity sitting in global healthcare business. I think there is a strong opportunity to build upon for further growth.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
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I find hope in the darkest of days, and focus in the brightest. I do not judge the universe.
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I think probably the reason why I really enjoy acting is that I really am interested in people. I'm interested in what they think, why they think it and what happened in their lives to make them see things a certain way.
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I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.
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Cosmonauts can keep their word like men and women - particularly women.
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I like melodrama because it is situated just at the meeting point between life and theater.
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The songs that work best are broad lyrically and have one strong concept in the metaphor.
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I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.
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Our leadership class's real accomplishment is résumé padding.
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Being down makes you think who you are.
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Being busy does not always mean real work.
