Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
Samuel Butler -
Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity.
Karen Armstrong -
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers -
I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
Mal Peet -
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
Larry Gagosian -
He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
Earl Scruggs
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
Taylor Schilling -
I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
Nathalie Kelley -
To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
Yann Arthus-Bertrand -
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.
Candice Bergen -
I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman -
In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
Vanessa Mae
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The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days.
Gabrielle Union -
I've not conducted my life in the service of smallness.
Barry Diller -
A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.
Nate Berkus -
I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
Gary Sherman -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson -
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
Abraham Lincoln
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We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
C. R. Smith -
'He’s young,' she said.'We’ve all been guilty of that sin,' said Alvin. 'And some never get over it.'
Orson Scott Card -
And add to these retired Leisure,That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.
John Milton -
All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so that the aim of exact science is to reduce the problems of nature to the determination of quantities by operations with numbers.
James C. Maxwell -
There is much else in the literary idiom of nature-philosophy:
Peter Medawar -
Nature is truly wonderful. Only man is truly foul.
Thomas A. Edison