Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Quotes to Explore
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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It's not the situation, but whether we react negative or respond positive to the situation that is important.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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So when I'm working out I do things extreme.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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The biggest misconception about me is the bad-boy image that everyone stuck me into due to my tattoos, drug days and the constant changes I make with my hair color.
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To be under occupation, to be under siege, is not a good inspiration for poetry.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I have suffered as much as Martin Luther King. Only I didn't get the bullet. And I would have taken the bullet if I could have.
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I've always written about heroes and wondered who they are.
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We can't go all over the world killing people because we disagree with them.
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You can be arrested and not charged. You can be arrested and have no right to counsel.
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No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short turnaround.
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When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.
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You show me a capitalist, and I'll show you a bloodsucker.
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Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.
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What men want is not talent, it is purpose; in other words, not the power to achieve, but the will to labor.
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You're never too good to get better... take that and apply that to everything in your life.
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Everybody is dealing with how much of their own aliveness they can bear and how much they need to anesthetize themselves.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
