Thomas A. Edison Quotes

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

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• As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Evil
  • Poverty
  • Worst

• Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.

  

  Damon Albarn Blur
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• The Internet is both great and terrible. As a source of information, a tool for delivering music and art, it's great. But spamming ads and piracy of music is terrible. It's stealing.

  

  Gary Wright
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.

  

  Damian Marley
  • School
  • High
  • Cat

• The music industry is so easy compared to the ballet world.

  

  Vanessa Carlton
  • World
  • Music
  • Easy

• I do pop, so pop is very broad. It could be anything from the Weeknd to Taylor Swift to Beyonce to whatever is on the radio, basically.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Very
  • Radio
  • Whatever

• The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Writing
  • Future

• I would definitely want kids. Would they be dancers? I dunno. That's up to them. If they show interest, I will push them do the best. I was not brought up in a dancer's family. I was brought up in a family where the mentality was whatever you do, you gotta try to be the best at it.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Up
  • Family
  • Kids

• If reincarnation is a useful biological idea it is certain that somewhere in the universe it will happen.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Universe
  • Idea
  • Happen

• Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.

  

  Jan Koum
  • People
  • Up
  • Happy

• Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• As for the promotion of peace congresses we have had our meetings and assemblies, but the promotion through them of the determined and effective will to peace displaying itself in action and policy remains to be achieved.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Action
  • Peace
  • Policy

• There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Movie
  • Career

• Laughter, ridicule, opposition, persecution, are often the only reward which Christ's followers get from the world.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Laughter
  • Followers

• I think we have to do everything that's useful. We're doctors. Our job is to tell the truth. And it doesn't have to be embellished in any way.

  

  Neal Barnard
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Way

• It was a real culture shock. It was a very fast-paced, demanding fishbowl.

  

  Bob Richards
  • Real
  • Culture
  • Shock

• In my mind, he's done an amazing job, and he's certainly one of the favorites for national coach of the year. To think what's done there after losing so much from last year's team, it just blows my mind.

  

  Dick Vitale
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Job

• The thing about post-traumatic stress disorder, we know about one in five, about 20 percent of individuals that are exposed to a direct traumatic stress will develop this disorder.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Know
  • Stress
  • Percent

• Reducing caloric intake is the only proven method of extending life. If caloric intake is reduced to 20 percent below maintenance, you can extend your lifespan considerably.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Life
  • You
  • Percent

• One is never deceived; one deceives oneself.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • One
  • Deceived

• Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.

  

  Winifred Holtby
  • Imagination
  • Wings
  • Mediocrity

• I'm more interested in knowing my cues than my lines. If you know what your cues are, then you know what your reaction is going to be to them. Acting is about reacting, and if I can kind of purely react, that's easier for me.

  

  Stephen Root
  • Acting
  • Lines
  • Cues

• We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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