Thomas A. Edison Quotes
The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
Quotes to Explore
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Economically, ISIS is making money every day on the black market with their oil fields. But they are also putting money in banks. We know where those banks are. We should go after the banks and the facilitators using them.
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All I want to do is get back to a principle-based Congress.
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From that time on, I always had the studios on my neck.
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I never thought of being disadvantaged.
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The whole idea is whatever you do, have fun with it; try to make sure that it's quality and something you don't mind putting your name on.
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I spent a lot of time in boarding school. This is something I will never do to my kids. I think if you're having kids, then you have to take care of them; otherwise, what's the point? There are many things that parents say are good for the kids, but the truth is they say that because it is good for the parents.
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The 'Outlander' fans are super-passionate.
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I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
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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 get really restless when I haven't worked for a day and a half. I have a recurring dream that people are lined up next to my bed, waiting for autographs and taking pictures of me!
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Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.
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It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.
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Unemployment determination in a modern economy was the main subject area of my research from the mid-1960s to the end of the 1970s and again from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s.
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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India may be the only country in the world that has been free of anti-Semitic prejudice throughout its history.
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You've got to keep an open mind.
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I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educators.
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It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.
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But let me do I will show the world what gymnastics looks like. Well may be this is a future gymnastics.
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I had always been kind of obsessed with making a home of my own and was always drawing rooms that I wanted to live in, down to pictures on the wall and the faces that would be in the photographs.
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The real measure of success is the number of experiments that can be crowded into 24 hours.
