Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
Quotes to Explore
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When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.
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I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
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I would love to have some sort of 'Back To The Future' Delorean time machine travel device so I could go back to 1981 to see that very first Jackson 5 concert I went to, back when I was a kid.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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There are young idealists all around the world falling in love with the Yankees now and realists who are gravitating to the Red Sox. I think the universe is on its head.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
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If you are not living this moment, you are not really living.
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The alternative to independence is decline, because the relationship with the Spanish state is not good; everyone knows that.
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.
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I used to hate working out - until I learned how to do it properly.
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Now, they hold the World Cup every year, so it's like any Super Series. It's boring. To me, it's very boring. I think the players will always attend the World Cup. But for the fans, and also for most players, the Olympics and Asian Games will become more important. Nobody will look forward to the World Cup with anticipation.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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I've been taking batting practice in my barn where nobody can see me, so I may be better than anyone thinks.
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
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Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.
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Sometimes it seems like there's more footnotes than text. This isn't something we're proud of, and over time we'd like to see our footnotes steadily shrink.
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I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.
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I was always singing around my house, and my parents thought they should put me into voice lessons just for fun.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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I am long on ideas, but short on time. I expect to live to be only about a hundred.
