Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minute, and be funny and fast.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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I like things simple.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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One of the most interesting aspects of the film project was collaborating with so many people - directors, filmmakers, and writers - over a five-year period. I learned that there are two components to this.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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You have to relish the challenge of television.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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I try to shut out ideas about why you should do things. Trying to do good architecture and really designing a career? There's some attention to be paid to that, but I don't think it's everything.
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A noble soul and real poetic talent are almost always inseparable.
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The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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I decided I was going to be an artist who wrote my own songs, and turned down the publishing deal. That meant that the first few years here were really tough financially. I didn't know if I was going to have gas to get home sometimes or could put gas in the car.
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I don't want to go to prison... but there is nothing they can do to me that will make me stop this referendum.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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When I got to Florida, I was a British kid, but I was also an Indian kid: a brown kid with an English accent. Talk about being an outsider. And that's become the theme of a lot of the stuff I write about.
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Ultimately, for our family, the opportunity to spend increased time together, balanced with a return to academia, was one we could not pass up.
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Unlimited power is worse for the average person than unlimited alcohol; and the resulting intoxication is more damaging for others. Very few have not deteriorated when given absolute dominion. It is worse for the governor than for the governed.
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Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.
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Boy, did he depress me! I don't mean he was a bad guy- he wasn't. But you don't have to be bad guy to depress somebody- you can be a good guy and do it.
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When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.
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A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
