Albert Einstein Quotes

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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• I used to kind of go for it, right? Like, I'd be the one who would say, 'All right, there's Kate Moss. I'm going to try to make out with her.'

  

  Dan Colen
  • Kind
  • Right
  • Try

• This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Right
  • Police
  • Dangerous

• I don't miss being on the road right now because the thing is, I was on the road for eight years, so I love pizza, but pizza every day for eight years is a different thing.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Road
  • Right
  • Thing

• Self-censorship is a lie to yourself; if you are going to be trying to seriously create art, to create literary art, and you decide to hold back, to censor yourself, then you are a fool to yourself and it would be better that you kept your mouth shut and did not speak.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Yourself

• I really am a cockeyed optimist.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Really
  • Optimist
  • Am

• So as far as Serbia is concerned, it does not have the right to influence the privatization or to claim any property, because Kosovo is a former member of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Right
  • Influence
  • Far

• Women would rather be right than reasonable.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Women
  • Right
  • Rather

• Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Me
  • Know
  • Movies

• I'm a California girl. I grew up in Inglewood right by LAX.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Right

• The judiciary is entitled to finally resolve a dispute. Not every decision is right.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Decision
  • Right
  • Judiciary

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• I am the type of artist where you can't tell me anything. I have always been that way. I am right. I don't need any input.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Artist
  • Right
  • Input

• If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • Right
  • Aim

• I hired Tina Fey for 'SNL,' which was certainly a good match. She took off right away there.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Right
  • Match
  • Tina Fey

• Both my grandmothers had upright pianos, and I just knew how to play since I was a child. Nobody taught me. I sounded like a grown-up, and then I learned how to read music. I played so well by ear I could fool the teacher to believe I could play the notes. She'd make the mistake of playing the song once, and I could play it.

  

  Valerie Simpson
  • Up
  • Music
  • Believe

• Americans have the right to choose to be unarmed and helpless. Be my guest.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Right
  • Choose
  • Guest

• I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Right
  • Israel

• If the money's right, I'll do a film.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • Money
  • Film
  • Right

• That wasn't a bad price for a first book. My agent upped it as much as possible. I was 27 and had nothing behind me. I was working like a fool to earn a living and pay for my apartment.

  

  Patricia Highsmith
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Me

• April Fool is widely considered one of the top yachts ever built by Feadship, the famed Dutch shipyard. Launched in 2006, April Fool has a huge master stateroom, a Jacuzzi on the fourth-level sun deck, a sauna, and sprawling outdoor dining lounge. The yacht first came onto the market in 2011 with a price of $69.5 million.

  

  Kayla Tausche
  • Sun
  • Fool
  • April

• It is better to be a human dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Different
  • Party
  • Question

• 'a misfit, a wolf in shepherd’s clothing and one of the end-time agents of the devil sent to lead astray those who would have believed in God.'

  

  Peter Akinola
  • Time
  • God
  • Devil

• If we are true to ourselves, we can not be false to anyone.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Cannot

• I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Right
  • Fool
  • Optimist