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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I feel like I get a tweet every other day: 'Can Thomas Rhett's dancing get any more awkward?' Which is hilarious to me. But I like to move, what can I say?
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There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.
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I work in a business of extremes, so when you are with someone who is very calm and logical, it's a great kind of balance to have.
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You know, this is a business where only 15% make a living wage and only 9% of those are women. But I figured somebody has to be that 15%, somebody's got to be one of those women.
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It's a risky business to send a picture out into the world. How often it must be impaired by the eyes of the unfeeling and the cruelty of the impotent who could extend their affliction universally!
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My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.
