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'm not gay, and I'm not a transvestite.
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Certainly, living in the U.S., as I have for over two decades, you see how Asians are portrayed in the media... I didn't see myself represented, you know, when I used to look at ads on TV.
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A true critic, in the perusal of a book, is like a dog at a feast, whose thoughts and stomach are wholly set upon what the guests fling away, and consequently is apt to snarl most when there are the fewest bones.
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The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
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So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.
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Economics, politics, and personalities are often inseparable.
