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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The biggest challenge in New Orleans has been to find workers who can climb a ladder after lunch.
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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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On a personal level, I do a "brain dump" where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then I give myself permission not to do everything on that list. I'm much more clear about my priorities: What are those moments of connection that are most important to me? Today is a busy workday but it's also a snow day, so I'm going cross-country skiing with my husband. And then I'll come back and finish my work., I do a brain dump where everything that's in my head that needs doing gets written down. It gives your brain a rest. And then I give myself permission not to do everything on that list. I'm much more clear about my priorities: What are those moments of connection that are most important to me? Today is a busy workday but it's also a snow day, so I'm going cross-country skiing with my husband. And then I'll come back and finish my work.
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Happiness, n. An agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.
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I spend a fair amount of time on my computer, but I don't hack into anything. I have to open the manual and follow instructions.
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Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits. It is intellectual bankruptcy.
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
