Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
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There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.
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I think one problem we've had is that people who are smart and creative and innovative as engineers went into financial engineering.
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It's fun to play dress up for work, but when you have those off-days, it's nice to just be low-key.
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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I'm not always angry. In fact, I think I usually go out of my way to try to find roles that don't seem to be like me.
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National partition is a sorrow that touches all Koreans, but for me it is brought to the fore by unimaginable personal suffering.
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I really am profoundly grateful just in general in my life. I've had an embarrassing amount of good fortune.
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My normal life is like being on holiday.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I like to know that when I'm 90 years old, I'm going to be able to look at a song or poem I wrote and say, 'Wow! I remember I was so crazy about this person,' or 'I remember what that day felt like.'
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I come from a communist country. We learned nothing of lawyers, nothing about rights.
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If you disapprove of violence, then you can't think there is any age when violence is appropriate.
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I don't like to be me. I'm not so comfortable being me on screen because then I'd be a presenter. I'm not Jimmy Fallon.
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The First 40 hours of work per week are for survival. Everything after that is for success.
