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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If we go to free agency without a CBA, I would say very few teams are going to be in play and be active. If you do have a CBA, there are going to be a lot of teams out there competing for players.
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All religions were, at bottom, one, though they differed in detail and outward form like the leaves on a tree.
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I like the idea that you can paint something outdoors, and anyone can see it. It's open to anyone, and people have to deal with it. In the gallery, it's the same 150 people on the San Francisco art scene. There's a dynamic on the street that's definitely more interesting.
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A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder.
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But the burns were like the fingerprints of an older time—before Ziegler and his brethren decided that traditional sources of value were merely superstition. “Those thousands of generations of technical progress” obliterated ritual, emptied out all meaning, glossolalia without divinity. I decided that’s what the painted mother foresaw, that she was saying farewell to candlelight, that she knew she was trapped inside a painting addressed to the future, where it could only be, however great, an instance of technique.
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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.
