Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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Your body is your temple, it's your home, and you must decorate it.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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The Hungarian people voted for NATO membership. We are active in the joint actions of NATO.
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For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
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Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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Hardly nobody gets to live two genders in their life.
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As women, we must speak out, speak up, say no to our inheritance of loss and yes to a future of women-led dialogue about women's rights and value.
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I'm not really one of those people who believes that if you're a musician you can just leave that behind and start getting into politics.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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I think that what happens for many Christians is, they accept their particular faith, they accept it to be true, and they stop examining it. Consequently, because it's already accepted to be true, they don't examine other people's faiths... That, I think, is not healthy for a person of any faith.
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable.
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When Dick Avedon died, I was so upset that I just started painting.
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Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.
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As my father used to tell me, the only true sign of success in life is being able to do for a living that which makes you happy.
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Profit is the most global aspect of a business, and it is cross-functional.
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The first requisite for success is to develop the ability to focus.
