Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
Quotes to Explore
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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They don't have a lot of appointment viewing. What television depends on, one thing 'Larry King Live' was - whether you liked it, didn't like it - it was appointment viewing.
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In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
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When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
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I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting or sculpture.
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In the day-to-day, farm work is stress relief for me. At the end of the day, I love having this other career - my anti-job - that keeps me in shape and gives me control over a vegetal domain.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
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I don't know the right way to retire.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Books are humanity in print.
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As an actress, I value and rely on peaceful self-expression, not only in my daily life, but also in my professional work. This is particularly true, as my commitment to the promotion of human rights is an integral part of my calling as an artist.
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I can't get caught up in the negative because that destroys you.
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I love being in the States because there's an emphasis on work. People are enthusiastic. They put heart into things.
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What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
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Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
