John von Neumann Quotes
If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o' clock, I say why not one o' clock?
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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I don't think there is much value in trying to use the moon as a base to go to Mars. That's going into one gravity belt and having to get back out of it again. And the moon doesn't have a lot to offer as a resource base.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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I don't believe in strong-arming people.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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It's a great beauty tip, if you ever want to look five years younger, to shave off your eyebrows. It's amazing what it does. It really shaves off the years.
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I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.
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Yves Saint Laurent was the first person who made me feel like a woman.
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Are your people uncomfortable during meetings and tired at the end? If not, they're probably not mixing it up enough and getting to the bottom of important issues.
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I leave my house all the time! But I'm not at all the Hollywood parties. I'm grown, and where else am I supposed to be? I'm supposed to be home.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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The amount of culture going on in a small country like Israel is amazing.
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Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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What's in my mind is that I'm investing in people. It might be through a building or a program, but I'm investing in people. And the people that I'm investing in are underprivileged or hold a core value that I believe in.
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I'm lucky to have a wife and a child that keep me grounded.
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For me, the more time you can take and the more care you can take with songs, the better off you're going to be.
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You lose yourself in the to-do list and never tackle those big things you promised you would when the campaign came to an end.
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It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.
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What upset me the most was not that I would die, but that I was letting down my parents. I felt very guilty for chasing this dream career of mine, at the expense of my parents.
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I once did a film in Russia because I wanted to see what the hell was going on there.
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If you say why not bomb them tomorrow, I say why not today? If you say today at five o' clock, I say why not one o' clock?
