Albert Einstein Quotes
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Foreign policy is an explicitly amoral enterprise.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I have always been driven to buck the system, to innovate, to take things beyond where they've been.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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Constant reference to a 'war on terror' did accomplish one major objective: It stimulated the emergence of a culture of fear.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.
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I like an even-keeled, slow-paced job.
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Magic is the mysteries into which not everyone is so lucky, or unlucky, as to be initiated. It can be affected by belief, the whims of the unseen, harsh language. And it is not. Supposed. To make. Sense. In fact, I think it's coolest when it doesn't.
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Once a conflict has dragged on for a decade, most people are tired of war - and the troubles that flow from it.
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It's quite difficult for a parent to know that their daughter is in great danger.
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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I come from nowhere Brooklyn, New York. Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These days Williamsburg is kind of a hip area, but when I grew up there, the taxi drivers wouldn't even go over the bridge, it was so dangerous.
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Being on one crutch to no crutches is a huge difference.
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Free speech is meant to protect unpopular speech. Popular speech, by definition, needs no protection.
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Each of my novels has come from a different place, and the processes are not always entirely conscious. I have lived off and on in America for a number of years and so have accumulated observations, found things interesting, been moved to tell stories about them.
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Father, fatherWe don't need to escalate.You see, war is not the answerFor only love can conquer hate.You know we've got to find a way To bring some lovin' here today.
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The difference between utility and utility plus beauty is the difference between telephone wires and the spider web.
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Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.
