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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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.
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If you're living in a community that's become fragmented and left behind, there's not proper investment in it and so on, in the end, the answer is to make sure that we go and we help those communities, we educate the people properly, we build the necessary infrastructure of support for people.
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In a world where discovery is more important than delivery, it's the people who find, remix and direct attention to old stuff that should be rewarded, not the people who deliver it or sit on it waiting for someone to show up.
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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
