Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.Thomas A. Edison
Quotes to Explore
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Football shape is one thing, and then 'futbol' shape is a completely other thing. It's a whole other level of fitness that you have to work to maintain.
Gabriel Luna -
I'm greedy, and I have a house to pay for and a wife. She has a job of her own, but I bleed her dry. She's on her third shift right now.
Dana Snyder -
Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
Randa Haines -
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.
J. G. Ballard -
Most artists, their 60th show was in front of no one. My first show was in front of 1,200 people.
Halsey -
Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
Karen McCarthy
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We kind of like the new Outkast.
Quavo Migos -
This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressure on the antagonist for whom we show human concern.
Barbara Deming -
Those of us born into vitalist and expressionist cultures must hope that governments will draw back from shutting down the modernist project of exploring, experimenting, and imagining - of voyaging into the unknown - that has been essential for rewarding lives.
Edmund Phelps -
I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
Larry Hagman -
London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
Laura Mvula -
We left Dayton, September 23, and arrived at our camp at Kill Devil Hill on Friday, the 25th.
Orville Wright
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A person is born with desires of the eyes and ears, and a liking for beautiful sights and sounds. If he gives way to them, they will lead him to immorality and lack of restriction, and any ritual principles and propriety will be abandoned.
Xun Kuang -
I make work not to give answers but to question things.
Florentijn Hofman -
You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
Macy Gray -
I think I'm like a free spirit.
Bai Ling -
With modeling, you are the client and you give them what they want... with music, it is all about you, people are buying into you as a person.
Caprice Bourret -
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
Edie Brickell -
I think that love is very important and exists in many forms for all of us.
Yanni -
The best designs are those that dissolve into behavior.
Naoto Fukasawa -
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran -
I never pick up an item without thinking of how I might improve it. I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. I want to save and advance human life, not destroy it. I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons to kill. The dove is my emblem.
Thomas A. Edison