Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I'm kind of a private person.
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I am a raging alcoholic and a raging addict and I didn't want to see my kids do the same thing.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
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It seems to me that politicians ought to use the same words as other people.
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I love singing. It's who I am. When I act, I take a small part of myself and just magnify it, but when I'm singing, that's who I am. I don't write music, so I choose songs that I would have written.
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All you have is yourself and what you have to present, and just focus on that. And if you can walk out of the audition and say to yourself, 'I hit all my beats,' 'I accomplished my emotional honesty,' or 'I remembered my words,' then that's winning.
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I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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Everyone knows that there are more people watching any given show than is being registered by the Nielsen system.
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I'm a big Stephen King fan.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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Paul Lucas had a particularly amusing accent, so I chuckled. That was terrible; I shouldn't have done that, but he took it too big. He got up and said he couldn't work with people who laughed at him!
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Consider the most famous pure dystopian tale of modern times, 1984, by George Orwell (1903-1950), published in 1948 (the same year in which Walden Two was published). I consider it an abominably poor book. It made a big hit (in my opinion) only because it rode the tidal wave of cold war sentiment in the United States.
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I always have to be writing.
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When everyone thinks alike, no one is thinking clearly.
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The groups that have awarded them are all a little different. It's a little hard to single out any one for that, but I think the dedication of this building would have to go toward the top of the list.
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It is very beautiful over there. (last words)
