Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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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 -
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 -
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 -
Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
Patrick Macnee -
I love Star City - it is my home.
Valentina Tereshkova -
It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
Tahar Rahim
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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 -
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 -
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 -
If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.
Edgar Wright -
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 -
I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
Laura Linney
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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 -
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 -
I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
Fiona Apple -
If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
Olivia Wilde -
Coming from the Midwest, I didn't know about stand-up as an art. I just thought stand-up comedians were old men in suits talking about their wives.
Natasha Leggero -
In 1990, when I had just arrived in New York City as a wet-behind-the-ears 20-something girl from Arizona, I spent a year or more working as the personal secretary and secret ghostwriter to an American-born countess in her apartment on the Upper East Side.
Kate Christensen
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
Vasily Grossman -
I figured if the plane goes down, I'll go with a great genius and will always have my name connected with his.
Matthew Sweet -
You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?
Catherine O'Hara -
You have to be careful how you're using the word boycott.
Vernon Jordan -
From the first day to this, sheer greed was the driving spirit of civilization.
Friedrich Engels -
Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man's character.
Thomas A. Edison