Albert Einstein Quotes

Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

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• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
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• I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

  

  Nas
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• I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.

  

  Patrick Wilson
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• The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

  

  E. M. Forster
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• At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.

  

  Hans Kung
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• I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.

  

  Victor Webster
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• I think I would make a good spy. I can sort of be a chameleon. People don't notice me very easily. I never get recognized.

  

  Dana Delany
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• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
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• I like music a lot.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
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• But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.

  

  Fiona Apple
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• I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

  

  Taylor Swift
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• It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.

  

  Kate Micucci
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• When you're an actor, you're mollycoddled, and you're treated with kid gloves. Everyone is like, 'Can I get you some water?' or 'Can I put on your slippers?'

  

  Tanc Sade
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• We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.

  

  Nathan Meyer Rothschild
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• Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
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• When we were doing 'The West Wing,' the hardest thing about doing 'The West Wing' was being compared to yourself. You go out there and want every episode to be as good as your best episode. I wrote 88 episodes of 'The West Wing,' and when you do that, one of them is going to be your 88th best, so your 88th best better be pretty good.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
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• My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.

  

  Ozzie Smith
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• I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

  

  Federico Fellini
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• Bad actors try to cry, and good actors try not to. Bad actors try to laugh, and good actors try not to.

  

  Martin Landau
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• Many are the marvels of God's Creation, but none so marvelous as man. Or so cunning, for good and ill.

  

  S. M. Stirling
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• We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.

  

  Bruce Babbitt
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• Courage is what preserves our liberty, safety, life, and our homes and parents, our country and children. Courage comprises all things.

  

  Plautus
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• Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.

  

  Albert Einstein
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