Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.

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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.
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In the search for culpability for the tragedy in Ferguson, I mostly blame politicians.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.
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I almost laughed about the Machiavellian plans of the presidents of the United States.
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There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.
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Embrace the grease, if any, and look fresh and human. I like to look like a glazed doughnut.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom.
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When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
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I'd love to play a Bond villain. Yeah, I'd love to play a Bond villain. Everyone always says this to me; they always say, 'You've got to be a Bond villain', 'We're going to make you a Bond villain...' But they've never, ever approached me, I've never had a whiff of it. I think I'd love to play a Bond villain; I'd have great fun.
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People have given me the freedom and believe in me enough to say if I want to do these things that I will find a way to make it work. I don't know if they think I'm crazy, drug damaged or just an old weirdo.
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I want to be respected as an actor. There's my ego. But I don't have a great need to be liked by an audience.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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It all comes back to the basics. Serve customers the best-tasting food at a good value in a clean, comfortable restaurant, and they'll keep coming back.
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In Bollywood, on an average, movies are made in six months or a year, but Puri completed 'Loafer' in two months.
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I've never been traditional, and I hate conforming to anything.
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You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.
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Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.
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Education isn't play--and it can't be made to look like play. It is hard, hard work. But it can be made interesting work.