Albert Einstein Quotes
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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What's upsetting about an autobiography is that the final chapter is always missing. I mean, you want the death, don't you?
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Every movie, especially when you get involved... takes something out of you. You learn something, but you give something to the movie. And after the movie, if the experience has been intense and a true experience, you're a little different afterward.
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We need to give the Iraqis a chance to build their own future. It should be in their hands. It must be in their hands. That is what democracy is all about. We can teach it, we can explain it, but they must want it enough to make it work for them.
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A definition of poetry can only determine what poetry should be and not what poetry actually was and is; otherwise the most concise formula would be: Poetry is that which at some time and some place was thus named.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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When you start to work with someone, there's a negotiation that takes place involving what's going to happen when you have a difference of opinion. Most attempts at collaboration never survive the negotiation. Merely being agreeable is not enough.
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All those who are around me are the bridge to my success, so they are all important.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.
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My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.
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I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
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When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn't be any press without the censorship.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt.
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Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two of hot toast, a pot of steaming Darjeeling tea, and you may tell the butler to dispense with the caviar, truffles and nightingales' tongues.
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The four Cs of making dreams come true: Curiosity, Courage, Consistency, Confidence.
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It’s the light, she thought. Everyone looks like a cutthroat by torchlight. No wonder they invented electricity.
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At least my mural of Leonardo da Vinci still exists on the wall of their offices, which were subsequently taken over by Expedia. They had the wall insured.
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I was a founding member of the 'Dungeons and Dragons' club at my high school. I was in chorus, I was in swing choir. I was an outcast but I was an outcast among a group of outcasts.
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A true genius admits that he knows nothing.
