Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
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When we manage a restaurant, we start making money from the first day. When we own a place, it's often five years before we earn the first penny that is clean of debt.
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I believe that fate is choices - it's not chance.
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
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My life has changed in many ways, both on an economic and personal level. All major league players are accorded the respect they deserve. In Cuba, it was not that way. National team players were not respected. The treatment was not adequate.
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I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.
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I know this sounds terribly shallow, but I've been mapping out my outfits for the next day every day since I was little, even before high school.
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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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A bad hair day for me is when it gets flat and greasy.
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I don't putt face-on exclusively, but in the back on my mind I'm haunted by the notion that I'm sure it's the best way to putt.
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All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.
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I'm fascinated by the way Diane Arbus saw things. She came from this fashion background and then twisted it.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Women are sacred.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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True democracy consists not in lowering the standard but in giving everybody, so far as possible, a chance of measuring up to the standard.
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I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.
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Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America.
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I can't imagine being a girl out there on the road. We can throw a hat on and stink. Girls have to do their hair.
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I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles.
