Albert Einstein Quotes
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If you're playing in a room that holds 15,000 people, it's just a question of how bad the room acoustics are and in what way they're bad.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'
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But it required a disastrous, internecine war to bring this question of human freedom to a crisis, and the process of striking the shackles from the slave was accomplished in a single hour.
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I miss Colombia. It's a great place.
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Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.
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When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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I think it's important for the public to know, great reporting starts with a publisher who has guts and an editor who has guts.
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Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.
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I was an optimistic person, really bossy, gregarious and outspoken.
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The universe is always speaking to us... sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more.
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I'm an iPod person.
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The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.
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I was at a slight disadvantage in that I had never played in bands or done any performances before, and that's just as important as writing, recording, and putting records out. It's been a lot of hard work, balanced with a lot of pinch-myself moments of touring in crazy parts of the world.
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I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.
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With bullying and all the stuff going on, words are very important. Words can be more hurtful than anything physically. I got little kids, and it's common sense when you're raising them that the main thing is how you talk to people, and how you treat people. Sometimes I think the world forgets that as we get older.
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The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
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I think we ought to ban earmarks. I think we ought to give citizens the opportunity to designate up to 10 percent of their federal income tax toward debt reduction. If we did that, we would reduce our debt by $95 billion a year.
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The only people are those who don't love anybody.
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At my first Golden Globes, I met people I was very much enamored by: Julianne Moore, Meryl Streep, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It was surreal to see them in person.
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
