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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Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.
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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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Films are all about decisions, and that's what I love.
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Trump doesn't go a day without worrying me. It seems like every day there's something new.
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Any perjury case is a tough case. You just don't go on 'he said-she said.' You have to find corroborating evidence.
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Culture changes because of musicians and actors and actresses. There's a responsibility there. You may ignore the responsibility. You may choose to be a bad role model. But, you are a role model nonetheless.
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There is nothing I ever wanted, if I wanted it bad enough, that I didn't get.
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A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.
