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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I believe now that I've cemented my spot as the best swimmer in the world, and I can't describe how proud that makes me. I just want to keep working hard and hopefully just inspire more youngsters to keep swimming and encourage South Africans to become a winning nation.
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Male makeup is men’s titles, status and paying for dates. Makeup is what both sexes use to bridge the gap between the power they have and the power they’d like to have. Both male and female makeup are compensations for feelings of powerlessness.
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Guitars are kind of just, you know, sexy, especially old vintage ones.
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When it comes to performance art, I am more interested in the failures then the so-called successes. I have never cared for entertaining anyone.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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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.
