Thomas A. Edison Quotes
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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For everyday clothes, I love North Face and Rohan, and for smarter options, I like Whistles and Agnes b on Marylebone High Street.
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There are always some doubts when you do a new album though. You wonder whether you succeeded or not, especially when you waited as long as I did for this one - seven years. You're never really sure if it will be a nice record or not.
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It is clothes. It is parts. Therefore, you combine the parts differently to create your own unique expression.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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On my show 'One on One', I interview leaders from around the world - in politics, business, art. My other show, 'Her Village', is more like 'The View'.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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A lot of the music I write is about love. Sometimes I won't understand how I am feeling until I write a song about it.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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I prefer more to kind of show people different things than tell them 'oh, here's what you should believe' and, over time, you can build up a rapport with your audience.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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When I was growing up in Pennsylvania, auditioning for Broadway was my dream.
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It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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People have said, if you leave, you may never come back. Or they may not even let you leave. So this is always a cost you may have to pay. But I don’t want to restrict myself: When it happens, it happens. I have to deal with it, but not to prepare for it, because it is a kind of stupidity. If you prepare for it too much, you become a part of it.
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It's amazing how much trouble you can get in when you don't have anything else to do.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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Show me a completely contented person and I'll show you a failure.
