Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

Thomas A. Edison

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• The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.

  

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• Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.

  

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• It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.

  

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• Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.

  

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• My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.

  

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• Yes, I am well aware that nature - or what we call nature: that totality of objects and processes that surrounds us and that alternately creates us and devours us - is neither our accomplice nor our confidant.

  

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• I have made 'start, grow and stay' a big part of my administration.

  

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• It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.

  

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• A new breed of Republicans has taken over the GOP. It is a new breed which is seeking to sell to Americans a doctrine which is as old as mankind - the doctrine of racial division, the doctrine of racial prejudice, the doctrine of white supremacy.

  

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• You'll find boredom where there is the absence of a good idea.

  

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• When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

  

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• I carry around, like, a little journal with me and just write all the time. Not necessarily, like, actually sitting down and writing lyrics - just freeform writing, whatever's going on in my mind. I write a lot on airplanes, actually, because it's completely isolating.

  

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• It's not about putting a speaker in a chair or putting a TV in a bed. That's not how technology and the home intersect. For me, it's about sensors, about the home knowing where you are.

  

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• Where there is peace, there is sports; where there is sports, there is peace. Peace is what allows us, especially young people, to dream, go after one's goals and prepare you for the next challenge in life.

  

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• I always try to see my weakness, work on it, to be better as a person and a player, everything.

  

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• Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
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  • Comprehend
  • Rousseau