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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You can't make money on Broadway. You make nothing. You maybe make like $1,350 a week after you pay out all the producers.
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Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.
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Don't ask God to change the laws of nature for you.
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The way I look at it, Mark McCain could have grown up to lead dance bands in the 1920s and '30s. As a young man who sang and played the guitar in two episodes, he might have made his way to Los Angeles, where there was lots of work for musicians in the early 1900s. By 1931, when he would have been the same age that I am now, he might have been leading his own band. I like to think he would have.
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A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
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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.
