Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
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To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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I will not say anything about my father. Period. I don't have a dad.
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I think like a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Failure is a great teacher. At the same time, you must remember, success will never last... Whether it's tech or fashion, it must be for the customer.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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I wanted to play in a band, and I wanted to do music for a living, and that's what I dedicated my life to.
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Drawings, paintings, and sculptures. That's the three pillars of art academia.
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I talk the truth. I don't trash talk, I just talk the truth.
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Shady's great; I love Shady Records.
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Because you know I'm All about that bass 'Bout that bass, no treble.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons.
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But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
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Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
