Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I am very lucky to be surrounded and guided by an incredible support team comprised of my family and agents.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.
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No one familiar with the common law of England can read the Constitution of the United States without observing the great desire of the Convention which framed that instrument to make it conform as far as possible with that law.
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Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and Steve Jobs did not start out wealthy, and actually added to income inequality, but we all benefit from their creative effort.
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To be well turned out, a woman should turn her thoughts in.
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It takes so long for the folks who are earning minimum wage to finally see a little bit of a rise... that it takes a little nudge, I think, from government.
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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.
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My parents gave me the easy option that if you're going to go your way, that's the highway. You can expect no funds and no support, which I think was legitimate; that was a fair option.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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When someone saves your life and gives you life, there's gratitude, humility; there's a time you've been so blessed you realize you've been given another chance at life that maybe you did or didn't deserve.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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Seriously, I do a lot of yoga, so I'm in control of my body.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Nothing is better than waking up in the morning and being excited to go into work.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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He is never more present in my work than when no image of him is there.
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I have a file of letters and bits of ephemera from friends who have died. I have had lots of friends who died of AIDS.
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Painting becomes interesting when it becomes timeless.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
