Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I thought, you know the food and the diet thing is one way to start yourself onto a healthy lifestyle, but if you don't move, if you don't start exercising you're gonna deteriorate.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.
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How emigration is actually lived - well, this depends on many factors: education, economic station, language, where one lands, and what support network is in place at the site of arrival.
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I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.
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Committing yourself to one person is sacred.
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We may be in a tough time right now, but when we are in a tough time is when our movement gets really strong.
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Graphic novels let you take risks that just wouldn't fly in the conventional book form.
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The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I'm planning to test my own boundaries.
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I am so happy that every generation still tunes into most of the classic and cult films I was lucky to be a part of.
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My second marriage was to a girl I met in Manchester, kept a long-distance relationship going for two years, then we got married... disaster.
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Gifts fall from heaven only in fairy tales.
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I went to Carnegie Mellon and was an electrical engineer, but electrical engineering wasn't right for me.
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You want to know how I think art should be taught to children? Take them to a museum and say, 'This is art, and you can't do it.
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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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To love is to burn, to be on fire.
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Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.
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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.
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We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles.
