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Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success.

Thomas A. Edison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: inventor
Nationality: american
Birth: February 11, 1847 - October 18, 1931

Topics

Success Want Anything Proof Sell

Music is 10% exhilaration and 90% utter disappointment.

Music Disappointment Exhilaration

I will always continue to make stupid action films but I think 'V For Vendetta' is a very smart film and I think that people will feel differently about things when they see it.

Smart People Stupid Action Think

There's a lot more people that enjoy me playing the enforcer, the destroyer. If bad disappears one day, then good goes out of business.

Good Business Day People Me Enjoy

Good writing does not come from verbiage but from words.

Good Words Writing Good Writing Come

Elizabeth Taylor is gorgeous, beautiful, and she still is today, I'm crazy about her.

Michael Jackson

Today Beautiful Crazy She Gorgeous

I think the word 'freedom' is beautiful, not so much in its phonics, but just in the power of the word itself.

Freedom Power Beautiful Think Just

I'm from Detroit. I was from a kind of violent neighbourhood.

Detroit Kind Violent Neighbourhood

I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

Dominic Chianese

Work Family Girl Time Man Become

What I described in 'Another Life' - about being on the hill and feeling the sort of dissolution that happened - is a frequent experience in a younger writer.

Life Experience Feeling Hill Being

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

Happiness Suffering Evil Selfish

Any society that could come here could pick up the lights from New York. What should we do about that? Should we darken New York from now until the last human expires? Would we want to turn off all the radars at JFK airport?

New York Society Lights New Airport

I have kind of a thick skin.

Skin Kind Thick Skin Thick

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