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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Even though I'm a pop singer, I really have more the life of a country singer.
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My mother's five-foot-two, and I'll be honest with you - she's the only person I'm scared of.
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Jesus Christ used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody's, to make him normal.
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The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
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I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.
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I think work is the world's greatest fun.
