Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
Olivia Munn -
There is no bore like a clever bore.
Samuel Butler -
I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'
Eddie Marsan -
I don't want to build any image for myself. I don't want people to say, 'He does only a certain type of role.' I don't want only to be the hero of the story. An actor's weakness is the different roles that he can't do. But I am keen to grab only those roles as I am here to challenge myself.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
Wayne Gretzky -
To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
My valleys are higher than most people's peaks. I stay at that level.
Dan Gable -
I was the youngest and on my own a lot. I think this probably taught me independence and how to be okay with my own company. Also, it meant I read a lot.
Zoe Foster Blake -
I love the idea of using film language similarly to how musicians use music - combining images and sounds in a way that they create an emotional effect.
Damien Chazelle -
Children in their young teens are just moving into the moment when they are most receptive to philosophy and psychology. You can explore these things in stories and, in doing so, give them power and control.
Kate Thompson
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
Orson Welles -
The way to a man's heart is through his chest.
Aaron Allston -
Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.
Ja Rule -
The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
Foster Friess -
Science fiction writers have usually been very poor prognosticators of the future, either in literary or technological terms, and that's because we're all too human and, I think, have the tendency to see what we want to or, in the case of those more paranoid, what we fear.
L. E. Modesitt -
When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
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I don't enjoy reality television at all. I have to say that I get it, though. I watch some of it, and I understand why people enjoy it.
Kristen Schaal -
'Where'd You Go, Bernadette' is an epistolary novel - one told in letters. I had no idea how much fun it would be, puzzling together the plot with letters and documents.
Maria Semple -
I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.
John Lanchester -
I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun.
Thomas A. Edison