Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

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• Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Know
  • First
  • Boring

• The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself, a very nasty thing. I used to go to treatment on my own, and nearly everybody else was with somebody. I wouldn't have liked that. Why would you want to make anybody sit in those places?

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Why
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• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• I love Star City - it is my home.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Love
  • Home
  • City

• It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • You
  • Know
  • Sometimes

• It's not like I ever sat in my room and said I was going to start a media company and become an editor in chief. It was never my dream. It was something that just happened.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Dream
  • Start
  • Media

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.

  

  Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair
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  • High
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• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
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• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
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  • Me

• We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
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  • Location

• I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Money
  • Thought
  • Movies

• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Accountability
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  • Predictions

• I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.

  

  Rachel Kushner
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• On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.

  

  Eden Robinson
  • People
  • Discovery
  • June

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Attention
  • Away
  • Acne

• I am really into how words sound out loud, so I was always the kid who would, like, read the page of the book to herself in her room over and over and over. And Raymond Carver is great for that. Tobias Wolff is an author who is really good for that as well.

  

  Lorde
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  • Book

• Composing is what I love most from what I do. Each genre has a unique expression that you cannot supplant with another. All the records co-inspire each other though they are not tied conceptually in any way to another.

  

  Serj Tankian System Of A Down
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• It's a shame how a lot of actors use theater as a stepping stone to film and television work; I think it shouldn't be treated that way. Maybe it's narcissism or something. I think we should always go back to it. I try and do a play a year, and I think that's really helped me.

  

  Peter Dinklage
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• You can't be a creative thinker if you're not stimulating your mind, just as you can't be an Olympic athlete if you don't train regularly.

  

  Ken Robinson
  • Mind
  • Athlete

• They say music can alter moods and talk to you. Well, can it load a gun up for you and cock it too? If it can, then the next time you assault a dude, just tell the judge that it was my fault, and I'll get sued!

  

  Eminem
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  • Music

• Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Creates