Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Just because you are different does not mean that you have to be rejected.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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We were descended from royalty.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Every character I've ever played, I always try to take him right to the edge and not allow him to fall over, but directors have a tendency to pull me back a little bit.
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She wanted us to feel we were above everyone in the town. She really did tell us that we were related to Chief Justice John Marshall, and that may have been true. I never did bother to find out.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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Um, well, I made a new CD called 'Dream With Me' and it's out now, and I'm really excited about it.
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When you get successful, you can do pretty much whatever you want.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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What is right, what is wrong, how can anyone say? I view very, very, few things as Right with a capital R.
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Whenever I do something, it is rooted in the Indian opportunity.
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I'm not interested so much in collaboration. You see that from the history of my albums.
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It is always good to be on the scoresheet.
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Your true nature doesn't come out. So the gods let you do what you want because free will would be compromised if they showed up at the White House saying, 'Take us to your leader.'
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For most of the history of our species we were helpless to understand how nature works. We took every storm, drought, illness and comet personally. We created myths and spirits in an attempt to explain the patterns of nature.
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Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human. Society is something that precedes the individual. Anyone who either cannot lead the common life or is so self-sufficient as not to need to, and therefore does not partake of society, is either a beast or a god.
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Working pretty much nonstop as an artist, the hardest thing is to know what to do with yourself when you have some time off. You struggle with yourself to take a vacation.
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Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.
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Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions.
