Albert Einstein Quotes
The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.
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Movies are a director's medium, and they end up getting less credit than actors. They get the flak if the movie doesn't do well, and the actor walks away with most of the credit if the film does well.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its English source since the Americans are not British in sensibility.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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If you want to fight a war on drugs, sit down at your own kitchen table and talk to your own children.
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Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
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I don't want to spoil the magic, but it's a very curious thing that honestly baffles me. It's the nearest we'll ever get to playing God, to suddenly produce these fully formed creatures. It is a bit odd. Other aspects you work out more - you rework sentences, you rework imagery. But not characters.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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If you see a player out in public having dinner, chances are he's with his boring money manager or some boring rich guy he hopes to design a golf course for.
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I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.
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Another thing: despite my youthful appearance, I am quite capable of making decisions.
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In fourth grade, I learned that reading was serious business, not just a pleasant way to pass the time, and that like medicine or engineering, it had a definite, valuable purpose: to foster 'comprehension.'
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
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I don't see myself as a diva at all.
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We all thought we'd have flying cars by now, but we don't.
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A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.
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What drew me towards team sport were the camaraderie and friendship. The chance to celebrate victory and success with a group of other people is something I have enjoyed doing.
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The first time I recorded without Allen Toussaint, I wanted to do doo-wop. Everything I've done since then has got some kind of doo-wop essence in it.
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My mother died in 2005. She was 61 years old.
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I might not be a psychiatrist, but I am convinced that sex is not as important as we tend to make it. First there is that little feeling, that little red flame, called love. Blow on the flame and make it get bigger like a fire, don't blow it out like a candle.
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Mass immigration is swamping the GOP base. Tens of millions of immigrants who vote Democratic, once they are naturalized and registered, have come and are coming to America. History may yet record that the Immigration Act of 1965 act converted 'The Emerging Republican Majority' of Kevin Phillips' classic work into the Lost Colony of the 21st century.
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I can work as a writer, but I wanted to do stand-up.
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The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good.
