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

• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Sometimes
  • Hair
  • Fool

• 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
  • Know
  • Me
  • Movies

• Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • Done
  • Success
  • Right

• 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

• Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lost

• 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

• Self-expression is always a right, but it's still not there to be abused.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Always
  • Right
  • Still

• 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

• If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.

  

  Nevil Shute
  • Time
  • Long
  • Right

• Nature always begins by resisting the artist, but he who really takes it seriously does not allow that resistance to put him off his stride; on the contrary, it is that much more of a stimulus to fight for victory.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Fighting
  • Artist
  • Victory

• For me it's a simple sport and a simple way to live these seven or eight years of maximum sport.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Way
  • Sport
  • Maximum

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Right
  • Fool
  • Optimist