Albert Einstein Quotes
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Some reporter called me 'the angriest gay man in the world' or some such. Well, it stuck, but I realized it was very useful.
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What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
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In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
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Man's shortcomings and sins are all due to substance of the body and not to its form, while all his merits are exclusively due to his form.
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As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.
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No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.
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For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.
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Then about 1951 I began writing again, painfully, a novel I called in the beginning A Life Sentence on Earth, but which developed into The Tree of Man.
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You've heard me call myself a bluesman and a blues singer. I call myself a blues singer, but you ain't never heard me call myself a blues guitar man. Well, that's because there's been so many can do it better'n I can, play the blues better'n me. I think a lot of them have told me things, taught me things.
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The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.
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It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.
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100% of Net-a-porter customers have a man in their lives in some capacity, and 59% are married or living with a partner.
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Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.
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Educational institutes can no longer be prizes in church politics or furnish berths for failure in other walks of life.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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At no point do I wish to be in conflict with any man or masculine thought. It doesn't enter my consciousness. Art is anonymous. It's not competitive with men. It's a complementary contribution.
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I have matured with the realization that I can live without a man!
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A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
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The best situation is where they cast you and then they trust you.
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Culture shouldn't be a pacifying thing. It shouldn't be something that you just passively accept. I think it should be something that, in some ways, is quite disruptive - makes you think and question things, and actually sparks debate.
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The reluctant hero is always fun to play.
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Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.
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We do not need an Osami <sic> bin Laden leading us.
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Show me a satisfied man, and I'll show you a failure.
