Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
Thomas A. Edison
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
I. King Jordan
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
Ram Kapoor
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
Nancy Meyers
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I met will.i.am in the studio and played him a couple of songs and he liked them. We're similar but there's nobody in my lane doing what I'm doing.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
Garry Shandling
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
Raf Simons
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I do a lot of weight training, and my workouts are intense, which include cardios, core body workouts, and functional training.
Karan Patel
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As far as my end of it, photographing, goes, all I'm interested in is pictures, frankly. I went to events, and it would have been very easy to just illustrate that idea about the relationships between the press and the event, you know.
Garry Winogrand
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I want all my films to look distinctly different, like some other directors I admire. But in a way, I can't really take myself completely out of the movies I make.
Imtiaz Ali
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I want my books to sell, to be read. I'm not interested in being obscure.
Vikram Seth
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I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.
Ian Holloway
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Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.
Thomas A. Edison