Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Quotes to Explore
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Life in California is beautiful.
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I came to acting in a very circuitous way.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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We ended up realizing that's not an economical way to create creatures, putting people in green leotards and figuring it out later. You can maybe do that if you're making 'Avatar,' but we need to know what the creatures look like before we turn on the camera.
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No matter what a woman's appearance may be, it will be used to undermine what she is saying and taken to individualize - as her personal problem - observations she makes about the beauty myth in society.
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I have perfectly symmetrical ankles.
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Live shows are pretty much like the center of the storm... where the power comes from, the most raw experience. That's the juice. That's where we hit the hardest.
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The Fiction Writer's Co-op has 51 members, from celebrated NYT bestsellers to promising newcomers, and a waiting list.
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I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.
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You can't betray yourself too often, or you become somebody else.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
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I am a composer first and foremost, and have always believed that being able to write memorable melodies is what sets musicians apart.
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I know how I treat my friends and family and kids, and that's all I'm worried about.
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For Guido Farinaro, USMC. These are yours - not mine! With love and respect, your platoon leader. Pete Pace.
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I love mixing in high street stuff and vintage.
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I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
