Thomas A. Edison Quotes

When I have fully decided that a result is worth getting I go ahead of it and make trial after trial until it comes.

Thomas A. Edison

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I grew up in the military. I've lived that life. I know that our soldiers are out there fighting for our right to vote, and they're out there fighting for other countries' rights to vote... Guys have been dying for it, and we have to go out and exercise it.

Robert Griffin III

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You do not know, and the readers cannot tell you, what they might like until they have it. It is one of those things that particularly if you want to be the next wave, well the next wave is not already on the bestseller lists. The next wave is in somebody's head.

Stephanie Laurens

WaveYouKnowWantTellHead

I still can't decide which is silliest; a person believing in a God who 'isn't there,' or a person offended by a God whom he doesn't believe exists.

Steven Crowder

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I guess I get really obsessive or passionate about things.

Simon Helberg

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It was a lot of fun doing 'Felicity.' She had just won the Golden Globe, and she was huge at the time, but she was like the nicest girl ever. As a guest star on a show, you get on the set and you feel out of place, but she was so nice to me and really cool.

Simon Rex

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Trout plus bacon is one of civilization's greatest formulas; it always equals pleasure.

Jonathan Miles

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Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'

Chris Hemsworth

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The proper reply to right wing religiosity is not to insist that politics and religion don't mix. This is the stock response of the left.

Christopher Lasch

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I liberally apply sunscreen and wear hats.

Christie Brinkley

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Some directors have just one way of working; you either have to adhere to it or you don't.

Bradley Cooper

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Everybody goes through a stage where you have it. And, all of a sudden, you don't have it anymore. You get older and the audience gets younger.

Bobby Vinton

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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Aristotle

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