Charles Edison Quotes
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.
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Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.
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All I can do is leave it in God's hands and hope that my fans feel where I'm coming from.
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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I was in Cannes two years ago at our 'U23D' movie premiere. I love the French.
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I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.
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You will perhaps say that the sinews and muscles of a bird are incomparably more powerful than those of a man... But the reply to this is that such great strength gives it a reserve of power beyond what it ordinarily uses...
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Greenpeace is the world's largest feel-good organisation now, and I can say that 'cause I am one of their co-founders.
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Luckily, neither in my Tamil nor in my Telugu movies do I have roles that require exaggerated emoting.
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I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.
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It's much easier for me to sleep in space than it is back home. We sleep in a cabin, and you can float inside.
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If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.
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Over the years, I was never really driven to become a solo artist, but I was curious to find out who I was as an individual creative person. It's taken some time, but now I feel I've truly paid my dues. I guess I'm at a point now where I'm more comfortable in my own skin.
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The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children.
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You throw batting practice, you warm up pitchers, you sit and cheer. You do whatever you have to do to stay on the team.
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I don't think about consequences too much.
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Russia is not our friend.
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Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.
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Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.
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When I'm talking to somebody, I'll put a piece of paper on the table and I'll write what I call a conversation summary - notes about the conversation on the piece of paper. At the end of the conversation, I'll take a picture on my phone and give the other person the original piece of paper.
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A Rook is of the value of five Pawns and a fraction, and may be exchanged for a minor Piece and two Pawns. Two Rooks may be exchanged for three minor Pieces.
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Being in a Chinese coal mine for 30 years is like an epic novel. It's tragic.
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A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job.
