Charles Edison Quotes
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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When I was younger I wanted to be a gymnast, but they have to be quite short - I was tall.
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Living with AIDS is like always having the sword of Damocles over your head. The disease is scarier than death itself. The disease is so messy, so devastating, so pervasive. It robs you of everything you hold dear.
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The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.
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I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart. They get so many messages that tell them the most important thing is to be beautiful.
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I am very optimistic, and I wish that God almighty grants me success to get a qualifying time. Only then can I go to the Olympics. If this happens I will be the first Palestinian athlete to gain a qualifying time. This will be a big achievement.
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I'm not in the business of politics.
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More than 25 miles off the coast of Massachusetts and only 14 miles long, Nantucket is, as Herman Melville wrote in 'Moby-Dick,' 'away off shore.'
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I want to stop piling people into prisons and stop branding people with a felony for a personal weakness.
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We're all complicit in the things we may be trying to oppose. I'm complicit in the things that I'm trying to oppose.
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I visited England immediately after I finished writing 'The Marrying Season,' before any editing or revisions.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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You can't just look at someone and guess their sexuality. There's no point in assuming that every gay man has just one personality type.
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Goodness had nothing to do with it, dearie.
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There, like the wind through woods in riot,Through him the gale of life blew high;The tree of man was never quiet:Then 'twas the Roman, now 'tis I.
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I went to UCF in Florida in Orlando. I went for advertising and public relations. I moved out to California my senior year because I knew I wanted to be an actor, but I also wanted to finish school and get my degree. I took mainly a bunch of criminal justice courses online for the last year because that's all that they offered.
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Big data in education has huge potential to improve learning materials.
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I'm an actor, and I think some of us who are drawn to this work know what it is to desperately want to be loved and validated: to be good at something and not be able to do it; to come in second on countless projects; or told that you were the first choice, but the part went to that guy who had that TV show in the '90s.
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When the family has been brought into its natural order, the individual can leave it behind him while still feeling the strength of his family supporting him. Only when the connection to his family is acknowledged, and the person's responsibility seen clearly and then distributed, can the individual feel unburdened and go about his personal affairs without anything from the past weighing him down or holding him back.
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I'm actually a little bit more tolerant than I thought I was. I've got kids, so I do have a lot of faces.
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Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
