Thomas A. Edison Quotes
So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I've got Asperger's syndrome and I'm not a very good people person, so I've always been more comfortable around machinery. Not in a weird way - I don't want to marry my car or anything stupid like that!
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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No offense to music - thank you for Entertainer of the Year and all that stuff. But if you're a father or a mother, there's nothing that beats being a parent, and that's the best time of my life right there.
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Well, I think I was always sort of reflecting where I was and my sense of surroundings and ecology, urban or country, or foreign, living in Europe, very affected by all of that.
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I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast aside due to prejudice.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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People have often asked me, do I want to be the next Oprah - there is no such thing. Oprah is Oprah, and she's still being Oprah if anybody hasn't noticed... what I bring to TV is myself... I really think there's space in daytime TV for a whole bunch of fun, some amazing music, and some heart.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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I had a passport where I wrote 'artist' under 'occupation' and I remember thinking, 'That's it, it's proved!'
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Our deals and performance speak for themselves. And whoever doesn't feel comfortable investing with us will not.
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I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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Not a day has gone by in my life when I haven't thought about death.
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I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work.
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It's a cliche, and in a way it's a conservative idea about fiction, but I did learn the hard way that plot does need to dictate the story.
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So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk.
