Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!Thomas A. Edison
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
Caitlyn Jenner -
Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
Carli Lloyd -
I am the guardian of power, not its owner.
Vicente Fox -
I never gave it that much thought to pursue acting or anything, but I would definitely be a Bond girl if they asked me. For sure - I would make a great evil Bond girl!
Lara Stone -
Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
Warren E. Burger -
I'm a holy man minus the holiness.
E. M. Forster
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
Pat Barker -
If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
Wayne Huizenga -
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds.
Octavia Spencer -
There are certainly talented instrumentalists coming from India. I see them performing all over the world.
Zubin Mehta -
I just try to show up and be relaxed and present and honest. And that's my only trick. And sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. Honestly, sometimes it really doesn't work.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Even though it seems like there are a lot of parts, there is really tons of downtime in the acting world.
Taryn Manning Boomkat
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
Sometimes, I sit down to sketch at the unearthly hour of 3 in the morning!
Nafisa Joseph -
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.
Bear Grylls -
If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
Warren Spector -
When I was a kid, I always had my hair in two plaits. But for dancing, I had to have it in a bun because I did ballet.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
I never got formal training in music. I would just sit with my ear to the speaker and my hand on the needle. I'd listen to Wanda Jackson and think, 'How did she do that?,' and lift the needle and try it myself.
Imelda May
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Print-on-demand and electronic self-publishing options have made it easy for anyone to set up a business as a publisher whether they know what they're doing or not.
Victoria Strauss -
Beauty is like a sunset: it goes as soon as you try to capture it. The beauty you like is precisely that which escapes you.
Issey Miyake -
It has always been cited as an irrepressible symptom of America's vitality that her people, in fair times and foul, believe in themselves and their institutions.
Alistair Cooke -
I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis -
I never knew I had an inventive talent until Phrenology told me so. I was a stranger to myself until then!
Thomas A. Edison