John von Neumann Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's important to have a big-enough house in order to have space.
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Planned Parenthood is not the front door of women's health. Not here in the 6th District, not in the state of Georgia, and not around the country.
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I came to New York when I was eighteen years old, and the first audition that I ever went to was this huge cattle call at the Equity building where I had gone two days earlier to sign up - I didn't have an agent or anything. It was for 'Chicago.' There were probably three hundred people there.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
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I mostly want to be friends with my children.
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I have often lost whole days jumping from one Wikipedia article after another in an attempt to understand the full scope of marriage as an institution.
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I wanna make weird stuff.
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Brie Larson's performance in 'Room' was pretty incredible.
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Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect.
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Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
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Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
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A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
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Why should we put a plan out? Our plan is to stop him. He must be stopped.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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If Gen. Omar el Bashir's government gives me permission to pursue Kony beyond the red line, it will only take me 30 minutes to finish him and his fighters.
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The glamour of Hollywood has never worn thin for me.
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Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the treatment of animals; and law, for her, is clearly not just the law of the land but, in some far deeper sense, a divine or cosmic law, whose violation can have disastrous effects-seeming breakdowns in the course of nature itself.
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From Arrezi
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Without the element of uncertainty, the bringing off of even, the greatest business triumph would be dull, routine, and eminently unsatisfying.
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I think with comedy I get very sort of critical of myself and try and do the best I can and it doesn't come as second nature. I work at those kinds of films. It doesn't mean I can't do them - I've done two now, and I have a great time doing them, but I just find myself a little bit more neurotic.
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There's not an orchestra in the world that doesn't have weaknesses. None of us can play everything well. The repertoire is just too big.
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While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
