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.
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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.
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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.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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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.
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I don't want to miss out on the chance of having a good time.
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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.
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I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.
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I like music a lot.
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I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.
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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.
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I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
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It's good to make your own things because you can have control of your own art.
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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?'
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We are like the mechanism of a watch: each part is essential.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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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.
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My short game's not that good. It just becomes a matter of getting that weight moving.
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Television doesn't like politics very well, if you can infer that from the way they cover it.
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We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.
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And, you know, I think the original recording of Ravel's Bolero, probably whoever played percussion on that, will never have It played better than that.
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Food is about communal togetherness. Our family does sit at the table. I think it's a great tragedy if a family doesn't have a table, as there is such an atmosphere of good will and warmth when we have eight people sitting around it.
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Remember crime against property is not real crime. People look at an oil painting and admire the use of brushstrokes to convey meaning. People look at a graffiti painting and admire the use of a drainpipe to gain access.
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Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
