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• Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.

  Bill McKibben

  Light, Two, Numbers

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• We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.

  Oswald Chambers

  Dark, Garden, Ignored

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• Do you know how much money you would save if you changed your light bulb to compact florescent light bubs? How much would you save if you decreased your temperature of your house in the winter by one degree, or increase it by one degree? We just don't know these numbers, but I think displays could make it a memorable change in terms of attention, and also help us translate it in terms of concrete ways on what you can get.

  Dan Ariely

  Memorable, Winter, Thinking

  "A conversation with Dan Ariely, Author of Predictably Irrational". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I never once failed at making a light bulb. I just found out 99 ways not to make one.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Way, Found

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• It is far better to limit our choice to real permanencies, which do not require staking... and a general mixture throughout of dwarf shrubs, perennials and ground-covers, with bulbs... This has been called gardening in four layers, and I believe it to be the most satisfying form of gardening.

  Graham Stuart Thomas

  Real, Believe, Dwarves

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• Groucho Marx, in his later days, gave me the best review I've ever had and probably will ever have. I changed a light bulb over his bed, and when I came off of his bed with the used one after putting the new one in, Groucho said, 'That's the best acting I've ever seen you do.'

  Elliott Gould

  Light, Acting, Bed

  Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. April 23, 2009.

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• Most big concerts sound disgusting and awful and insultingly bad. It's like going to the cinema and been shown a scratchy film which is upsidedown and the bulb had gone on the projector. The quality of large-scale live music is so shocking.

  Brian Eno

  Quality, Awful, Sound

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• Of the 200 light bulbs that didn't work, every failure told me something that I was able to incorporate into the next attempt.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Light, Able, Next

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• This church was open and seemingly unattended, and it was a throwback in another way as well. The candles in the little side altars were real ones, actual wax candles that burned with an open flame. Lots of churches have switched over to electrified altars. You drop your quarter in the slot and a flame-shaped bulb goes on and stays on for your quarter's worth of time. It's like a parking meter, and if you stay too long they tow away your soul.

  Lawrence Block

  Real, Flames, Parking Meters

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• What did moths bump into before the electric light bulb was invented? Boy, the lightbulb really screwed the moth up didn't it? Are there moths on their way to the sun now going, It's gonna be worth it!.

  Bill Hicks

  Boys, Light, Sun

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• My parents are actors as well, so I grew up around that world. It was always a very romantic, mythical world. They did a lot of theater, so to me an actor was getting to come backstage and dressing room mirrors with bulbs around them and trying on people's costumes. It was very exciting to me as a child.

  Phoebe Fox

  Children, Mirrors, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• All of us can make changes, but the changes that are most needed are not light bulbs and windows but laws and policies and treaties. So, yes, we are in a phase of this (climate protection) struggle where civic and political action is at the top of the list.

  Al Gore

  Struggle, Light, Law

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• We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

  William H. Gass

  Patience, Time, Children

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• I had one of those light bulb 'a ha' moments while screening 'Good Will Hunting' in Camp David in 1998 - Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do.

  Lawrence Bender

  Hunting, Light, People

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• Playing guitar as a young teen, I didn't really have the little light bulb in my head that said you're committed until when I was about 16. By the time I was 16, I was like, I'm guna do this. I don't care what happens. I'd play whatever other instruments fell into my hands along way.

  Steve Kimock

  Light, Guitar, Hands

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• If you don't know a light bulb is a three-way light bulb, it messes with your head. You reach to turn it off, and it just gets brighter! That's the exact opposite of what I wanted you to do! So you turn the switch again, and it gets brighter once more! I will break you, light bulb!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• The light bulb going off in my head was a fear that in this pivotal moment in history, when America faces so many serious problems, when the middle class and working class of this country are being decimated, that there were not voices out there representing the tens of millions of people who needed a voice. And the idea of going through a campaign where there is not a serious discussion about the most important issues facing America, where there are not voices out there representing people who are hurting - that seemed to me unacceptable.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Hurt, Light

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• I received Christ into my heart and my life began to change. But it was a gradual change. And I didn't see any flashing bulbs. I didn't hear any thunder. There was no great emotional experience. It was just saying: Yes, Lord Jesus, I want you to be the lord of my life.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Heart, Emotional

  "Tony Snow Interviews Billy Graham". "Fox News Sunday" with Tony Snow, www.deceptioninthechurch.com. January 2, 2000.

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• As far as where I go when I die, the concept that I am simple going to flick out, like a light bulb, to me is not only spiritually impossible to believe, but logically it is laughable - the idea that we simply die and nothing happens.

  Stephen King

  Believe, Simple, Light

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• How many amoebas does it take to screw in a light bulb? One, no two! No four! ...no eight!

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Eight

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• My grandmother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house. It leaked, she contended, out of empty sockets if the wall switch had been left on. She would go around screwing in bulbs, and if they lighted up, she would fearfully turn off the wall switch and go back to her Pearson's or Everybody's, happy in the satisfaction that she had stopped not only a costly but dangerous leakage. nothing could ever clear this up for her.

  James Thurber

  Wall, Grandmother, Years

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• I saw a want ad. "light housekeeping." They said "Here, change this bulb." I said "I'll need some friends."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Light

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• Noon-day sunshine cinema-ized the site, turning the bridge and the river into an over-exposed picture. Photographing it with my Instamatic 400 was like photographing a photograph. The sun became a monstrous light-bulb that projected a detached series of stills through my Instamatic into my eye.

  Robert Smithson

  Eye, Sunshine, Light

  Robert Smithson, Jack D. Flam (1996). “Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings”, p.70, Univ of California Press

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• I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Positive, Giving Up, Light

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held.

  Anthony Marra

  Stars, Dark, Light

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