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Thomas A. Edison Quotes

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.

Thomas A. Edison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Failure Progress Man Me You Will

And, in some ways I like traveling, in other ways I'm sort of fed up by the whole notion.

Up Whole Fed Up Like Traveling Some

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Work Hope Power I Am Drunk My Own

A lot of people might define a life well lived by how much is in the bank. I feel like it's how much you laugh.

Life People Feel Laugh You Bank

I remember watching 'Three's Company' with my parents, and it was time for bed, so I started to make my voice lower like Don Knotts and imitating him. They started laughing, and I didn't have to go to bed, so that informed a lot.

Time Parents Voice Remember Three

Would you ask Picasso to explain 'Guernica?' Would you ask Nabokov to explain 'Lolita?' Would you ask Tolstoy about 'War and Peace?' No, you wouldn't dare.

Peace War You Dare Ask Explain

We've all known a John Tucker. We've either known one, dated one or our best friend has dated one. I think a lot of men at one point or another have been a John Tucker.

Friend Best Men Best Friend Think

I have a tough personality but then have a very soft side to me. I'm kind of a tomboy, but I throw it together with girly pieces.

Personality Together Me Tough Kind

Are you kidding? They had me at 'Star Wars.' The kid inside me would've clawed his way out and strangled me if I'd turned this job down.

Job Me You Down Way Kid

I'm from New Orleans, which is all about direct engagement out in the street with all the parades and Mardi Gras Indians and jazz funerals. I'm trying to take that and put it into my generation, a group that doesn't have enough joy and celebration in their lives.

Joy Generation Enough Trying Jazz

I may not be a trained actor, but I've paid my dues. And I mean that literally. I am a fully dues-paid member of SAG/AFTRA. As a political figure, I've been called a 'card carrying' member of numerous groups that I'm not a member of - and now I'm being called a non-actor when I am literally a card-carrying member of the union for actors.

I Am Political Now Actor Mean May

When we have a Deputy Prime Minister who tells people not to drive cars but has two Jags himself, and where the Minister who tells people not to have two homes turns out to have nine himself no wonder the public believe politicians are hypocrites.

Politics People Drive Believe Wonder

I'd really love to see a business model for higher education going forward that is actually affordable, that uses modern technology to reach scale and quality and that really reimburses the services rendered in a way that's meaningful to everybody.

Sebastian Thrun

Education Love Business Technology

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