Albert Einstein Quotes
Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I hate shopping. I don't go shopping. If I do, I run in and out.
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You don't have to worry about what happened last year; you can start fresh.
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Many Africans succumb to the idea that they can't do things because of what society says. Images of Africa are negative - war, corruption, poverty. We need to be proud of our culture.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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Up-tempo or slow tempo, I don't feel that one is better than the other.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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BETTER DROWNED THAN DUFFERS IF NOT DUFFERS WONT DROWN.
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Drugs were pretty easy to quit taking. I was never addicted to anything to begin with. But then, liquor - I had to wait about another six years before I finally got around to quitting that. I'm sure glad I did.
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It never ceases to surprise me, the people I get to work with. I'm in a French film with Sandrine Bonnaire? I adore Sandrine Bonnaire. I'm doing a picture for Robert Redford? The Sundance Kid? I have to pinch myself sometimes.
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
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A mind concerned about danger is a clouded mind. It's paralyzing.
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A four-hundred-dollar suit on him would look like socks on a rooster.
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.
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I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
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People's need to protect their own egos know no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, even kill, to do whatever it takes to maintain what we call ego boundries.
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Most people overestimate what they can do in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.
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Patience is the virtue of an ass, who treads beneath his burden and complains not.
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Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population.
