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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The most important lesson I have learned from spending years talking to law enforcement officers is that the vast majority of them really want to do a good job. They have a physical need to do a good job. And yet, we don't give them the resources that would help them.
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Marxists profess to reject religion in favor of science, but they cherish a belief that the external universe is evolving with reliable, if not divine, necessity in exactly the direction in which they want to go.
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If I get one more person telling me I look like Eliot Spitzer, I'm just going to have to play the guy one day.
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A far greater factor than abolishing poverty is the deterrent effect of swift and certain consequences: swift arrest, prompt trial, certain penalty and - at some point - finality of judgment.
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A rib... loaves and fish... some spit... God can do a lot with a little.
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The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?
