Thomas A. Edison Quotes
My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
Quotes to Explore
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I like writing better. Because I don't have to wear makeup, I don't have to be thin, and I don't have to remember lines.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.
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I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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Involvement in Afghanistan, I thought, was totally warranted. We were attacked, we attacked back, but after six months of being in Afghanistan, I thought we had pretty well effectively wiped out al Qaeda.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Supporting iconic, growth-oriented industries, combined with tax policies that encourage small business growth and investment, represents a potent combination and is the basis of our entire administration.
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The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.
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I want to work with my friends because Canadian genre publishing is a really small pool.
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I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.
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I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason.
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I will take an earnest person over a hip person every day, because hip is short-term, earnest is long-term.
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Our interests are indeed common European interests, and the only way to serve them is by common means. That is why all Europeans, and all E.U. member states, have a collective responsibility to strengthen our Union.
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A clever conjurer is welcome anywhere, and those of us whose powers of entertainment are limited to the setting of booby-traps or the arranging of apple-pie beds must view with envy the much greater tribute of laughter and applause which is the lot of the prestidigitator with some natural gift for legerdemain.
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A social worker named Cosette Rae, along with a therapist named Hilarie Cash, founded 'ReSTART' in what, until then, had been Rae's house.
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I certainly don't want a child of mine to be famous, or anyone I was very close to who isn't yet... It's the worst thing to be trapped in your house not be able to leave.
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The sex element is the most important in the business. You must sell sex.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
