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I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

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• Children are easily influenced, and I always want to do things I can be proud to show my kids someday.

  

  Faith Hill
  • Children
  • Kids
  • Want

• I mean, '8½' to me is such a great dissertation on the whole, you know, act of filmmaking and creativity.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Great
  • Me
  • Creativity

• I like Disney stuff. No-one looks at 'Toy Story' and says,' Oh, that's just for kids.' Why is it that games can only appeal to a certain audience, but movies and books - I mean, how many adults read 'Harry Potter?'

  

  Warren Spector
  • Why
  • Kids
  • Story

• I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Poetry
  • Write
  • I Can

• War is not an independent phenomenon, but the continuation of politics by different means.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • Different
  • War
  • Politics

• All actors are insecure. And I've got my insecurities, which is why I go to the gym all the time.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Why
  • Gym

• Before the storm comes the calm. Hope you can take the heat like LeBron

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Hope
  • Calm
  • Storm

• If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Understood
  • Word Of God

• I just want to help other women achieve as much as they can in society without restraints being imposed on us. It's the most natural and normal thing to want to defend your rights to equal opportunities, equal pay for equal work, and everything that comes with that.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Work
  • Women
  • Help

• Understanding what the framers meant can help us. But alone it cannot be enough.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Help
  • Alone
  • Understanding

• There's a slight problem with the majority counsel's epiphany as it has been passed down to the managers and then to you.

  

  Charles Ruff
  • Problem
  • Managers
  • Epiphany

• Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.

  

  Jim Horning
  • Learning
  • Discipline
  • Building

• I think I stand where that man stands.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Man
  • I Think
  • Stands

• Even a soul submerged in sleep is hard at work and helps make something of the world.

  

  Heraclitus
  • World
  • Work
  • Soul

• The fish is my friend too...I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars. Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. But imagine if a man each day should have to try to kill the sun? We were born lucky; he thought

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Imagine

• Effort is a measure of a Man.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Sports
  • Effort

• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Poor
  • Dare

• I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Run

• I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

  

  Studs Terkel
  • Dare