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.
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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.
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I've never felt more comfortable in my skin, I've never enjoyed life as much and I feel so lucky.
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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.
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Voting in presidential and congressional elections is a national right - and the national government should protect it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I just know what I want, and I'm willing to butt heads with folks to get it.
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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.
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I've always been a fan of science fiction.
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I have the Italian flag embroidered onto all my dress-shirt cuffs. I am very proud to be Italian.
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My hair was long with a fringe, and people would make jokes, calling me Britney and Lady Gaga.
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Every stylish man should have a copy of 'The Fountainhead' by Ayn Rand on his bookshelf.
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I think I drift toward sad love songs.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do feel a responsibility. It's a privilege to be able to speak about it, but I don't speak for all gay people.
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It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
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I am a child of my generation, and I rejoice that I live in such splendidly disturbing times.
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You need to continue to find ways to engage fans to keep them excited about what you're doing.
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I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.
