Thomas A. Edison Quotes
It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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The great sin was adopting the 21st Century's Socialism, something that not even its founder, Ditrich knows exactly what it is, though he says it is under construction.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Questions that require answers are what keep readers going - and the place to start raising those questions is with your very first sentence.
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I was really a charmer; I was the guy who would get to the office, the principal would sit me down and within 10 minutes, we'd be, like, talking about some movies or something.
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
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A lot of people who are overweight - not everyone, but a lot of people - are dealing with issues such as emotional issues, stress issues. They become stress eaters and emotional eaters.
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I was always interested in fashion and beauty. I was fifteen when I was scouted in a flea market. Two years later, I arrived in New York. I was in awe because it was like another planet.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
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I don't have to be a size zero anymore. But I still want to feel and look good.
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I'm in a sketch comedy group in school and I also do stand-up.
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I learned you can't trust the judgment of good friends.
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You shouldn't have to have money to have a luxury fragrance.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.
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No one can hurry me down to Hades before my time, but if a man's hour is come, be he brave or be he coward, there is no escape for him when he has once been born.
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Every meal should be prepared with love and eaten in peace, because its purpose is to strengthen us for the service of Love.
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I think there are always going to be people who say, even if they are engaged in the movie, they just want it to move faster.
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It is astonishing what an effort it seems to be for many people to put their brains definitely and systematically to work.
