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.Thomas A. Edison
Quotes to Explore
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti -
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.
Larry King -
In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.
Salman Rushdie -
When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.
Patrick Swayze -
I came here to tell you the truth, the good, the bad and the ugly.
Oliver North -
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.
Jackson Browne
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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.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
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.
Barbara Kingsolver -
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
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.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I'm developing artists for my new record label, my son's band, Intangible, being one of them.
Gary Wright -
I don't know the right way to retire.
Barry Sanders
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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.
Aaron Sorkin -
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.
Walter Kirn -
Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
Saint Augustine -
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.
Beau Bridges -
I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
Jack Dee -
I just know you can not be on top forever. There's always going to be the next guy, and if I'm going to go down, I'd like to know I helped the next guy take my spot. You can't prevent the inevitable, but you can join the ship.
Gabriel Iglesias
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You don't need validation from other people. You've gotta find it within yourself and sit in it and roll with it.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard -
Be Yourself Not What The World Wants You To Be
Sara Shepard -
If you have fun and keep a good attitude, people want to work with you.
James Marsden -
I wish I were big.
Gary Ross -
Science is you! It's your head, it's your dog, it's your iPhone - it's the world. How do you see that as boring? If it's boring, it's because you're learning it from a textbook.
Mary Roach -
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.
Thomas A. Edison