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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He who is really good can never be unhappy. He who is really wise can never be perplexed. He who is really brave is never afraid.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship.
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Nothing in life gives a man so much courage as the attainment or renewal of the conviction that other people regard him with favor; because it means that everyone joins to give him help and protection, which is an infinitely stronger bulwark against the ills of life than anything he can do himself.
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I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill.
