Thomas A. Edison Quotes

My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

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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.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Life
  • Long
  • Space

• My worst expectations never happened.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Never
  • Worst
  • Expectations

• I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • More
  • Now
  • Class

• 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.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

  

  Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Famous
  • Name-Dropper

• 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.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Time
  • Great
  • America

• I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I view myself as a male artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • View

• I don't want to be someone else.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Want
  • Someone
  • Else

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• 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.

  

  Fran Drescher
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Better

• All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Powerful
  • Vote
  • Our

• I realize I have strength as an artist and professional by embracing my difference instead of what makes me the same.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Professional
  • Same
  • Strength

• I used to find great difficulty in drawing feet.

  

  Ida Rentoul Outhwaite
  • Great
  • Drawing
  • Feet

• 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.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Security
  • Now
  • Health care

• 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.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Pretty
  • Thought
  • Back

• I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Live
  • Hope
  • More

• 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.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Business
  • Small
  • Growth

• The mentality of the Russian demands a lord, a czar, a president.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • President
  • Lord
  • Demands

• There is no such thing as a 'real' representation of 'reality.' Except, perhaps, in algebraic formulae.

  

  Claude Simon
  • Real
  • Reality
  • Representation

• Well, for me, I grew up very Southern Baptist, and I definitely lived in my bubble. You know, I lived in my bubble that was in my church.

  

  Jessica Simpson
  • Up
  • Church

• I miss aspects of being in the Arab world - the language - and there is a tranquility in these cities with great rivers. Whether it's Cairo or Baghdad, you sit there and you think, 'This river has flown here for thousands of years.' There are magical moments in these places.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • World
  • Great
  • Moments

• My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant - but misdirected - ideas of others.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Business
  • Value
  • Commercial