Albert Einstein Quotes
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I could have gone the route of a lot of these former child actors, but I didn't want that for myself. Like I said, when I was 14 years old, I decided to quit. I didn't ever want to do it again.
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'The Waltons' was profoundly important after years of wandering around. I was 44 and cut off from family and friends. It nurtured me back to a sense of family and who I am. It was a transforming experience.
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I wanted to get some nose job, because I don't like how my nose tip looks. My hand is also not as pretty, especially my thumb nails. Many people told me that I have ugly hands.
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Effective satire has to be almost identical to the subject that it is skewering.
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I'm feeling incredibly Botox-tempted as my face collapses around my shoulders.
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I have lots of friends and, like me, they're not married. So my kids have lots of godparents - men and women, gay and straight. My loft is always filled with people helping me out with them and loving them.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
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Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
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In a democracy, power is not permanent.
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Dolomite is a whole mess of stuff, a mixture. It gets characterised as 'a stuff' because of the interest of oil geologists. It would have been a nonentity were it not for its applications.
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Music was in the air when I was growing up. My siblings Katy, Dave and Phil were musical; my dad worked in inner-city New York where a musical revolution was taking place - folk music, rock n' roll, gospel music. My sister taught me to sing. My brothers taught me to play.
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People get tired of you. So they decided to throw me out. And so help me God, as the numbers were coming in, I said to myself, 'I'm free at last.'
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If you spend 72 hours in a place you've never been, talking to people whose language you don't speak about social, political, and economic complexities you don't understand, and you come back as the world's biggest know-it-all, you're a reporter. Either that or you're President Obama.
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Animals can adapt to problems and make inventions, but often no faster than natural selection can do its work - the world acts as its own simulator in the case of natural selection.
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Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.
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Estimates of the ionic mobilities vary over a considerable range; but in any event, the positive ionic defect is much more mobile in the solid than in the liquid, and its mobility varies very little with the temperature.
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Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
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All kinds of celebrities, political ones as well, are increasingly being targeted. In this country, with all the countless guns.
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I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.
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Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle.
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Cult: simply an extension of the idea that everyone's supreme aim in life is self- fulfillment and happiness and that one is entitled to wreck marriage, children and certainly one's health and sanity in pursuit of this.
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I have no extraordinary ability. I'm simply an inquisitive individual.
