Albert Einstein Quotes

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

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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.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • People
  • Bad
  • Question

• If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.

  

  Victor Borge
  • Person
  • Laughter
  • Reward

• It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Person
  • Race
  • Type

• 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.

  

  Wendell Willkie
  • War
  • Freedom
  • Question

• I miss Colombia. It's a great place.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Great
  • Place
  • Colombia

• Any concept of one person being superior to another can lead to racism.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Person
  • Racism
  • Lead

• When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • You
  • Question
  • Mystery

• 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.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • World
  • God
  • Art

• When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Person
  • Place
  • Homeless

• 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.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Great
  • Important
  • Think

• 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.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

• 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.

  

  Nancy Thayer
  • Believe
  • Stop
  • Universe

• I'm an iPod person.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Person
  • iPod

• The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • Time
  • Important
  • Wisdom

• I'm the type of person who won't cancel a show even if I don't feel my best.

  

  Natalie Cole
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  • Person
  • Feel

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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  • Universe
  • Language

• The most important issue for the killer is the ability to get a victim easily and successfully.

  

  Pat Brown
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  • Most
  • Victim

• The same evidence that is convincing to one person may not convince another.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • May
  • Person
  • Evidence

• It's very important for me to try to relax when I'm travelling, and playing my flute helps me to unwind.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Important
  • Relax

• Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Excellence
  • Often

• 'Be alive,' the land says, 'listen - this is your time, your world, your pleasure.'

  

  William Stafford
  • World
  • Pleasure
  • Alive

• I like being able to play women that are growing or aren't easy to love. Maybe they are really likable, but they're annoying because they're not tapping into who they're suppose to be. You're watching them, and you're like, 'Oh, why does she keep making this decision?'

  

  Taylour Paige
  • Women
  • Play
  • Like

• Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

  

  Jeff Hawkins
  • Brain

• The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

  

  Albert Einstein
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