Thomas A. Edison Quotes
I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison
Quotes to Explore
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
Lasse Hallstrom
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
Eberhard Weber
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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There are wonderful restaurants in London. I love Indian food and I like Arab food, and I go very often to the Arab restaurant Noura.
Daniel Barenboim
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
Barbara Mikulski
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
Walter Kirn
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Every quality I despise in George Bush is a quality I despise in myself. He is my worst self realized.
David Shields
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The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Living in New Zealand, it's like a different world - it is a different world. It's very, very cool.
Luke Evans
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If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
Bill Janklow
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I have not failed. I have successfully discovered 1200 ideas that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison