Albert Einstein Quotes
I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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I listen to 'deep dish house'.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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I love road trips! My husband and I love that. We bought a truck with a bench seat so we could put the dog in the middle.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I'd feel bad pretending my life was anything other than pretty good, so I do the role as well as I can and then I go home, have a cup of tea, see my family and friends, and appreciate what I've got.
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The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
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And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.
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The nature of creativity is to make space for things to happen... We can drive it out with our busyness and plans.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Nothing in the universe is contingent, but all things are conditioned to exist and operate in a particular manner by the necessity of the divine nature.
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We should all love animals.
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In recent years, the government has lost more than five million fingerprints from government employees. They have lost hundreds of millions of credit numbers from financial institutions. This problem is happening more and more and more. And the only way we can protect ourselves is to make phones more and more secure.
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Overwhelmed by the miraculous potentialities of the machine, our human greed has interfered with the biological cycle of human companionship which keeps the life of a community healthy.
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I feel blessed to be having a really easy pregnancy.
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Slouching or leaning back may send the wrong signals. When you sit down for a formal interview, lean forward to show interest and active listening.
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It's absolutely ugly, but unfortunately quite true of the world today; the more money you make, the more people tend to listen to you. If you're not quoted in Fortune or Forbes or the Wall Street Journal, then nobody listens. If you say something that makes a lot of money, whether what you said is true or not, people listen.
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Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.
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Thai society rarely attempts to control literature in the same way that it vigilantly polices visual art. It's ironic because people in this society are more aware of literature than they are of art.
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I agree with Schopenhauer that one of the most powerful motives that attracts people to science and art is the longing to escape from everyday life.
