Thomas A. Edison Quotes
X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
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There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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The beautiful thing is that ageism just doesn't exist on 'EastEnders.' The show saved me.
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Bob Rubin was opposed to signing the welfare bill. He's not exactly what I call a flaming liberal.
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'Prison Notebooks' gives me a basic understanding of how power can influence people through cultural products and intellectual groups, so they will voluntarily support the hegemony.
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Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.
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In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.
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You don't start shooting rockets at Israel and expect that we'll just sit back supinely and die.
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You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
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The keyboard is my journal.
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On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think.
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My style overall is whatever is comfy, whatever I feel like wearing that day that I feel good in. I have some really classic pieces that I can dress up, dress down, wear to the movies or wear to a really nice dinner. And I love a really good leather jacket.
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The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
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When you work alongside somebody day in and day out, the relationships tend to be wonderful: they're lifelong.
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Billions of dollars have been put into genetic research.
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Most people assume that my style is so outlandish and out there, but the reality is I like very classic pieces just rendered unusually.
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Of course I remember everything I've ever worn.
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Under the Constitution, federal law trumps both state and city law. But antitrust law allows states some exceptional leeway to adopt anticompetitive business regulations, out of respect for states' rights to regulate business. This federal respect for states' rights does not extend to cities.
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I believe that nowadays we are in the process of establishing a new relationship between humanity, creativity and nature.
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Stretch the bow to the very full, and you will wish you had stopped in time.
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The night was dark, and a cold wind blew, driving the clouds, furiously and fast, before it. There was one black, gloomy mass that seemed to follow him: not hurrying in the wild chase with the others, but lingering sullenly behind, and gliding darkly and stealthily on. He often looked back at this, and, more than once, stopped to let it pass over; but, somehow, when he went forward again, it was still behind him, coming mournfully and slowly up, like a shadowy funeral train.
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My soul has painted like the wings of butterflies, Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die, I can fly, my friends.
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When we see beyond self, we no longer cling to happiness. And when we stop clinging, we can begin to be happy.
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X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms.
