Albert Einstein Quotes

... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

Albert Einstein

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• I'm not an aggressive person at all. But I know how to fight.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
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• I really want women to know their power, to value their experience. To understand that nothing has been more wholesome in the political process than the increased involvement of women.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Women
  • Experience
  • Power

• There's the person that's the addict, and then there's the person that's who you are.

  

  Daniel Baldwin
  • You
  • Person
  • Then

• A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.

  

  Rachel Roy
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  • Responsibility
  • Person

• When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
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  • Being
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• A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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  • Person
  • Others

• Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Time
  • Value
  • Yourself

• I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Time
  • Person
  • Just

• He who calls a person a fascist for opposing independence is not only wrong but putting themselves on the same level as those who call us Nazis for wanting independence.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Person
  • Same
  • Independence

• My mother was pragmatic, focused and extremely, exceedingly practical, and she was the ultimate self-determining person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • She
  • Mother
  • Person

• Anyone who knows me knows that I'm way more of a joker than I am a serious person.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Joker

• It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Family
  • Value
  • Daily

• One thing I didn't understand in life was that I had $100,000,000 in the bank and I couldn't buy happiness. I had everything: mansions, yachts, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, but I was depressed. I didn't know where I fitted in. But then I found family and friends and I learned the value of life.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• As I grow older, I become more and more of a Marxist - Groucho, that is. When you have lived two-thirds of your life, you know the value of a good joke.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Life
  • Good
  • Value

• I don't use Twitter. I'm a serious person.

  

  Paolo Sorrentino
  • Serious
  • Person
  • Twitter

• I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Up
  • Like
  • Person

• I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Person
  • Really
  • Optimistic

• I'm not really the type of person who wears my heart on my sleeve. I keep everything inside.

  

  Taylor Dye
  • Heart
  • Person
  • Everything

• Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Life
  • Up
  • Believe

• I try to construct some kind of backstory for my character so that I have an idea of the life of that character - not just from the moment when the scene starts, but from before.

  

  Carol Kane
  • Life
  • Character

• I 've been married so much in my life that I never really had lovers, so it's been a fun time. Hopefully the men are enjoying it as well.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Time
  • Men

• I've been in the public eye so long, I can't remember how it was when it was different - from my mid-20s onwards, when my career started to blossom and I became an international, world cups and things.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • Different
  • Long

• ... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Value
  • Person
  • Enlightened