Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
Garry Trudeau -
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson -
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible for my attitude toward the inevitable misfortunes that darken life.
Walter Anderson -
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
I'm very, very sensitive to pain and to people who suffer.
Patricia Cornwell
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There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
Samuel Butler -
All of life is a foreign country.
Jack Kerouac -
There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
Isaac Hayes -
To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
Quintilian -
I'd love to make a thriller.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
When I was starting out, I always wanted to be able to do everything - comedy and drama and action, and everything in between. Film is so diverse, and it's fun to be able to take advantage of all of it.
Olivia Thirlby
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
Iris Chang -
I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
Yani Tseng -
I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
Zendaya -
I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
F. Murray Abraham -
Lying in the political sphere has gotten out of hand, and because people tend to dismiss things that challenge their preconceived notions of the world, fact checkers can only play a small part in remedying the problem.
Pamela Meyer -
I took the first James Kelman novel, 'The Bus Conductor Hines', home to my dad. I thought, 'My dad will like this; it's written in Scots.' But my dad said: 'I can't read that.' He was reading James Bond and John le Carre. That was part of what attracted me to crime - the idea of getting a wide audience.
Ian Rankin
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People who are fit are the same as anyone else. The only difference is their level of commitment. If looking good and being fit was easy, everyone would do it! Most people don't want to put in the work or make the sacrifices needed in order to be fit.
Laila Ali -
The real world is much smaller than the imaginary.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
Ian MacKaye -
When I have an idea, I'm like a pregnant woman. I just have to deliver.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
To have a great idea, have a lot of them.
Thomas A. Edison