Charles Edison Quotes
Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
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When you're in a songwriting class, and you write a song, and you hand it in to a teacher to grade, I'm still going to say that it's a really awesome song whether I got an A or a D. I learned to stick to my guns and take the tools as tools and not as rules.
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Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
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I can walk into a bookstore and hand over my credit card and they don't know who the hell I am. Maybe that says something about bookstore clerks.
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I try to have a normal life since I have an abnormal job.
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I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.
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A fighter lives in his training camp, and I'm not always paying attention to what is happening on the outside. But I do know the Mexican people and the Mexican-American people in this country are very hard-working people. That's my only comment about Donald Trump.
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DeNiro did a good job playing a catcher in 'Bang the Drum Slowly,' but he's great in everything he does.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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My job is not to give you all the answers. My job is to ask the questions.
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Of course, every job I ever had I thought I was born for.
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Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.
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I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.
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I walked out of 'Harry and the Hendersons.' Harry bugged me; I don't know. Yeah, it's weird because I think Sasquatches are great, but not then. Maybe not that weekend - I don't know. I don't know what it was.
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Nothing personal - I am just doing my job.
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When I'm in professional mode, I do the best job that I can.
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If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
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There's no such thing as a writer's block. If you're having trouble writing, well, pick up the pen and write. No matter what, keep that hand moving. Writing is really a physical activity.
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On the other hand, if the free world is concerned with how a new Palestinian leader governs, then the peace process will have a real chance to succeed.
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I've always just worked and tried to do as good a job as possible so that the people who are watching me took notice. That's what's helped me be successful today.
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I'm really interested in kind of weird social situations and cliques, watching girls vying for attention, watching how the popularity thing happens. I've always thought too hard about everything.
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The twentieth century ended with its dreams in ruins. The notion of the community as a voluntary association of enlightened citizens has died forever. We realize how suffocatingly humane we've become, dedicated to moderation and the middle way. The suburbanization of the soul has overrun our planet like the plague.
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There are times to be casual and times to be correct. It's all right to wear a sweater and slacks on a picnic, but they don't belong in the theater or the drawing room.
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The art from the East is influenced by nature and touch. That comes from being more attuned to the environment.
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Any man who takes a job with the idea that it is simply a springboard for something else is a chump. His attention will be more on the other things than on the job at hand and so he will fail.
