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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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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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 would love for people to be able to think of me as a guy who stood up for what he believed in and helped make a difference for the vets.
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It was a good thing that she got herself into this other school. It showed her that there were other worlds beside the world she had been born into and that these other worlds were not unattainable.
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I like waking up in the morning and thinking, 'Mmm, I might go to Paris today.' I don't want to ask anyone if they want to come with me or mind me going. I like being my own agent. I have my grandsons and son. If I didn't have them, it would be different.
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You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless.
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There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.
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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.
