Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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I'm always looking for that sense of fun and adventure and even unlikeability. I don't want to be the obvious leading lady. I have the most fun playing these girls who are a little damaged and maybe a little insecure and trying to overcompensate for it.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.
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God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
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As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?
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Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the greatest game there is!
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
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There's a huge expanse of this continent that so seldom gets photographed.
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In 'Laurence Anyways,' Nathalie Baye is Laurence's mother, and she is quite an awful mother. Still, she is the only one in the end who truly accepts her daughter.
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'Loving Frank' is about a forbidden love affair between two people who lived a hundred years ago - Frank Lloyd Wright and his married client, Mamah Borthwick Cheney. The affair set off a colossal newspaper scandal when the lovers ran off to Europe together.
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But we never get back our youth… The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to.
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Evil is a disease; and worry over disease is itself an additional form of disease, which only adds to the original complaint.
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I'm always going to talent scout and try to find new artists to work with.
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Most of the day I work standing up, as I once read somewhere that it's the best position for the back.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
