Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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But who knows, some years from now if there's a global emissions trading scheme agreement, as many have hoped for, then I'm sure Australia would be part of it.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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The E.U. has its weaknesses, but it's been pretty good for us, and it's been pretty good for Europe, and it's kept peace.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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In football, the result is an impostor. You can do things really, really well but not win. There's something greater than the result, more lasting - a legacy.
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You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
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[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations
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There are three stages: Thoughtless being. Thought. Return to thoughtless being.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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Democracy is itself, a religious faith. For some it comes close to being the only formal religion they have.
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When women's consciousness was raised, women ended up seeing housework as their shit work ; when men's consciousness is raised, risking sexual rejection will be seen as the male shit work .
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Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward.
