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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My worst expectations never happened.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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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 view myself as a male artist.
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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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Don't hate me for what tabloids write about me, because I guarantee it's a lie.
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I take responsibility for all of it. It all rests with me. We don't have to look real far to find somebody. I'm to blame.
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A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
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Race is used, by all of us, in the most manipulative ways, is often force-fit and reduced to something it isn't, to something that gives us a sense of comfort, a false one. Many of us thought - needed to feel - the whole business was 'settled.' But it's not, never has been. Laws have only taken us so far.
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
