Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
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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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I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.
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The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level.
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I am so grateful. So many dreams came true throughout this experience and I just want to say this. I am not special. I’m “Just a kid from Vegas” anyone can achieve their dreams if they work hard enough so please go for them.
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There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman.
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I learned from different guys I played with, too. The key was probably three people: The good Lord, the offensive linemen I played with and great fullbacks that could block very well.
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The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
