John von Neumann Quotes
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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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One thing about being a stand-up is it's a one-man show. You gotta do everything. You're the producer, writer, director, and the actor. You just gotta be out there and perform and give your all. It's such an honest form of art that it just taught me so much, and it kind of prepared me for manhood at an early age.
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The business of books is the business of life.
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Becoming an artist is not empirical; it's not about hard work. You have to put the work in, but that doesn't mean you're going to make it.
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Myrnin, who hadn't said much, suddenly reached out and wrapped his arms around her. She stiffened, shocked, and for a panicked second wondered whether he'd suddenly decided to snack on her neck... but it was just a hug. His body felt cold against hers, and way too close, but then he let go and stepped back. "You've done very well. I'm extremely proud of you," he said. There was a touch of color high in his pale cheeks. "Do go home now. And shower. You reek like the dead." Which, coming from a vampire, was pretty rich.
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Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
