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It wasn’t a slow deal, when you see one of those develop that fast in heavy timber and already see another dozen fires in California running crazy, it doesn’t take much to light your lightbulb or ring your bell. – John Hawkins	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Ive known Joe over the years. Hes not the brightest lightbulb in the group, but he has a name they know. – Donald Trump	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
A lightbulb was sitting deep inside the ejecta of the explosion, it would have been hard to see this in a normal stellar explosion. But The Cow had very little ejecta mass, which allowed us to view the central engines radiation directly. – Northwesterns Raffaella Margutti	Found on FOX News 5 years ago
A' lightbulb' was sitting deep inside the ejecta of the explosion, it would have been hard to see this in a normal stellar explosion. But The Cow had very little ejecta mass, which allowed us to view the central engine's radiation directly. – Raffaella Margutti	Found on CNN 5 years ago
My parents and I were at Walmart, and when we were in the check-out line, the lady in front of us couldn't pay for her food and had to put it back, that's when a lightbulb went on and I knew I needed to help the less fortunate. – Asher Potts	Found on CNN 8 years ago
That's when a lightbulb went on and I knew I needed to help the less fortunate. – Asher Potts	Found on CNN 8 years ago
When I heard about that drugstore, that was my lightbulb moment, if that guy's journey starts in that drugstore in the late 1930s and goes all the way to the stores closing, that's incredible. – Colin Hanks	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
I wasn't sure what was going on, if it was some kind of spiritual event or what, the whole sky lit up like somebody lit up a lightbulb. – Patrick McGehee	Found on FOX News 9 years ago

It wasn’t a slow deal, when you see one of those develop that fast in heavy timber and already see another dozen fires in California running crazy, it doesn’t take much to light your lightbulb or ring your bell.

– John Hawkins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Ive known Joe over the years. Hes not the brightest lightbulb in the group, but he has a name they know.

– Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

A lightbulb was sitting deep inside the ejecta of the explosion, it would have been hard to see this in a normal stellar explosion. But The Cow had very little ejecta mass, which allowed us to view the central engines radiation directly.

– Northwesterns Raffaella Margutti

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

A' lightbulb' was sitting deep inside the ejecta of the explosion, it would have been hard to see this in a normal stellar explosion. But The Cow had very little ejecta mass, which allowed us to view the central engine's radiation directly.

– Raffaella Margutti

Found on CNN
5 years ago

My parents and I were at Walmart, and when we were in the check-out line, the lady in front of us couldn't pay for her food and had to put it back, that's when a lightbulb went on and I knew I needed to help the less fortunate.

– Asher Potts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

That's when a lightbulb went on and I knew I needed to help the less fortunate.

– Asher Potts

Found on CNN
8 years ago

When I heard about that drugstore, that was my lightbulb moment, if that guy's journey starts in that drugstore in the late 1930s and goes all the way to the stores closing, that's incredible.

– Colin Hanks

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

I wasn't sure what was going on, if it was some kind of spiritual event or what, the whole sky lit up like somebody lit up a lightbulb.

– Patrick McGehee

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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