Thomas A. Edison Quotes

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

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• For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • People
  • Children
  • Honor

• I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Eye

• I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Never
  • Lucky

• There's so much innovation going on, and there are lots of people funding that innovation, but there's very little innovation on that infrastructure for innovation itself, so we like to do that ourselves to help companies create more tech companies.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Help
  • Innovation

• Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Protect
  • Presidential

• Celebrities become excluded from everyday life, kind of in exile in an echelon that is deemed better, anyway: Life of celebrity, all the fame and glamor.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Everyday

• May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

  

  Samuel Freeman Miller
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• When you're on the subway in New York, people literally could be 11-inches away from you, and you can't just stare at them.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • People
  • New York
  • Subway

• We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Men
  • Community
  • Courage

• I've always been a fan of science fiction.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Science
  • Always
  • Fiction

• I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Proud
  • Italian
  • Flag

• My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Long
  • Hair

• Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Man
  • Copy
  • Stylish

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.

  

  Corin Tucker
  • Great
  • Music
  • Soul

• The good news is at this point as I get older, the load has gotten heavier but my shoulders have gotten wider because I've gotten happier so it's a damn good thing.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Good
  • Older
  • Happier

• Because the pop industry is cruel, if you don't do everything the label wants you to do, it has an army of other people waiting to do it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • People
  • Waiting
  • Army

• Justin had a definite time line in Australia. We'd get a lot of value out of trying to win Test matches trying to play him now but in the end we'd only have him until now.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Value

• It's important for parents to watch for trouble and convey to their daughters that, if it comes, they are strong enough to deal with it. Parents who send their [adolescent] daughters the message that they'll be overwhelmed by problems aren't likely to hear what's really happening.

  

  Mary Pipher
  • Important
  • Parents
  • Strong

• Once he could read and write he would have a mind fit to rule. So ran the democratic doctrine. But instead of a mind, universal literacy has given him rubber stamps, rubber stamps inked with advertising slogans, with editorials, with published scientific data, with the trivialities of the tabloids and the platitudes of history, but quite innocent of original thought.

  

  Edward Bernays
  • History
  • Write
  • Rule

• Before people can begin something new, they have to end what used to be and unlearn the old way.

  

  William Bridges
  • People
  • Something
  • Used

• I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Make
  • Ways
  • Lightbulb