Albert Einstein Quotes

Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

Albert Einstein

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• I think that when you decide to dedicate yourself to creative endeavors and surround yourself with people who are creative, you very quickly learn how hard it is to survive doing those kinds of things, not to mention make a living at them.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Surround Yourself

• What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Life
  • Childhood

• What is feminism? Simply the belief that women should be as free as men, however nuts, dim, deluded, badly dressed, fat, receding, lazy, and smug they might be.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Men
  • Women
  • Free

• Being American and being an outsider at the same time, it's a perspective I often bring to a character.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Time
  • Character
  • American

• I will never forget the will of the people who believed in me wherever I went during the election campaign.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • People
  • Never
  • Forget

• My way of relaxing was always doing the opposite and playing the drums, but I need to be able to actually chill.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Always
  • Doing
  • Need

• I always wanted to act. I guess I've always been a bit of a drama queen.

  

  Samantha Isler
  • Drama
  • Act
  • Queen

• What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Find
  • Seek
  • U.S.

• If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • World
  • American
  • History

• Talking to other people who make low-budget movies, everyone kind of has the same struggle.

  

  Zoe Cassavetes
  • People
  • Struggle
  • Movies

• I've spent a long time avoiding painting and dealing with it from a distance. But as I get older, I'm more comfortable with it.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Time
  • Long
  • Painting

• I'm in hotel rooms most of the time, and it can be hard to find a hotel with a nice gym. It was important for me to have a workout I could do in my room.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Time
  • Important
  • Nice

• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Running
  • Down
  • Active

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Good
  • Art
  • Serious

• There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.

  

  K. V. Thomas
  • Should
  • Place
  • Policy

• Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Religion
  • More
  • Common Sense

• I'm a natural blonde!

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Natural
  • Blonde

• I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Myself
  • Decision
  • Listening

• The first purchase I made with my own money was a single by The Kinks, "All Day and All of the Night" and still one of my all time favorites.

  

  Gary Calamar
  • Time
  • Money
  • Night

• I work hard and I play hard, too. There is nothing wrong with that.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Work
  • Play
  • Work Hard

• There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

  

  Samuel Larsen
  • Life
  • Positive
  • Negative

• We didn't get television until quite late, the late fifties, but we had radio, and I can remember listening to the Korean War news on the radio with my family and sensing the anxiety of the adults although not understanding it myself, not understanding exactly what was going on.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • Family
  • Remember
  • War

• Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Thought
  • Instinct
  • Tried