Charles Edison Quotes
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Goals enable you to do more for yourself and others, too.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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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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As writers, we don't just need to write about poverty or war or the immigrant experience.
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The most important point is, in a time of crisis, there is no way out but for the government to be bold and aggressive.
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Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
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Man cannot live without a continuous confidence in something indestructible within himself.
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Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
