Albert Einstein Quotes

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

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• During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

  

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• If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Up
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• When the depths are upheld by the Holy Spirit, then the reaction is Christian.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
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• My dad was pretty strict. We didn't even get to watch any of his movies until I was, like, 17 years old. I didn't even see his stand-up, really, until I started doing stand-up, and that was when I was 22. So he's pretty strict. We had curfews until I was 17... he didn't play around.

  

  Damon Wayans, Jr.
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• I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
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• I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
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  • Short
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• A man's friendships are, like his will, invalidated by marriage - but they are also no less invalidated by the marriage of his friends.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Friends
  • Man
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• My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

  

  Finn Jones
  • She
  • Dad
  • Child

• Most people are interested in seeing 27-year-old women who are in movies somehow connected to sex. It's interesting to everyone. Especially little movies that are having trouble getting made, there's always sex.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • People
  • Women
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• My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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• There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Interesting
  • Present
  • Which

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• Arianna Huffington has exercised her renowned wisdom to give journalism another boost along the ever busier Internet. Her blog site promises to be an interesting challenge for those of us lucky enough to be invited to participate with our occasional contributions.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Interesting
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  • Challenge

• Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.

  

  Quintilian
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  • Broken
  • Habits

• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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  • Argument

• When I was in high school, I was doing all the plays. My drama teacher, Melody Duggan, was the one one who first made me do stand-up. She's the origin of the whole thing; it's all her. In high school in Denver, that was kind of the beginning of it all.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Writing
  • Day
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• Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.

  

  Fatos Nano
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• You have to get through the Hamlet hoop as a young actor. Your classical qualifications are based on the quality of your Hamlet. And then, as an older actor, you have to get through the Lear hoop. And I'm approaching the Lear hoop.

  

  Derek Jacobi
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• Young people have so many letdowns that people don't realize.

  

  Ione Skye
  • People
  • Young
  • Realize

• The government of the Union, then, … is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.

  

  John Marshall
  • People

• Making art has first of all to do with honesty. My first lesson was to see objectively, to erase all 'meaning' of the thing seen. Then only, could the real meaning of it be understood and felt.

  

  Ellsworth Kelly
  • Real
  • Art
  • Honesty

• I moved to San Francisco when I was 20 years old. I couldn't even drink yet. My friends in college thought I was so stupid for missing out on the four best years of my life. But I was so ready to start living my own life and absorb Silicon Valley culture.

  

  Brit Morin
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Culture

• To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Response
  • Offer