Thomas A. Edison Quotes
A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
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Not only is self-regulation largely a fantasy, but repeated scandals across multiple industries have proved that companies are fundamentally incapable of self-regulating for the greater good.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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In India, it is difficult for a cricketer to show that he is under some kind of stress. Here, you can only retire when you don't want to play anymore, or the motivation is lacking.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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My life and my work are very interlocked. That's partly why I like to keep my private life private.
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There is still a funny notion that women should not write violent fiction.
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I'm convinced the fall of Aleppo will not end the war.
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Music is about the performance.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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Last year people won more than one billion dollars playing poker. And casinos made twenty-seven billion just by being around those people.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
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Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.
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You have a very poor neighborhood. You have students that are required to go to school. They have no money, no habit of work. What if you paid them in the afternoon to work in the clerical office or as the assistant librarian?
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Used to be all I'd want to learn was wisdom, trust and truth, now all I really want to learn is Forgiveness for you
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O let the organ, many-voiced, sing boldly, O let it roar like spring's first thunderstorm! My half-closed eyes over your young bride's shoulder Will meet your eyes just once and then no more.
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A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.
