Albert Einstein Quotes

All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

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• You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • You
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  • Bus

• Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Time
  • Job
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• I envision the script as a story in my mind, memorize the entire thing and have it play out. It helps me figure out where my character needs to go.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Story

• When the British became Christian, Christianity in no way altered their political organisation.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Political
  • Way
  • Christian

• When I listen to a song, I don't say, 'Oh my gosh, that vocal line she sang was the best thing I ever heard.' I'm thinking, 'That lyric just moves me. That lyric just said what I feel better than I could say it myself.'

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Thinking
  • She
  • Song

• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mom

• I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a little world that I can go back to, so I can be a waitress, or I can be a teacher, and then go and work on my book.

  

  Dana Spiotta
  • World
  • Work
  • Book

• Sometimes you think you aren't a good mama; you always feel a bit guilty when you're a mom. You want to be everywhere.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Think
  • Mom

• I love my stories being multi-layered, and coming at it from different angles, so that you don't understand the film's true emotional motivation until the very end.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • True
  • Emotional
  • Stories

• Lonely women destroy themselves; lonely men threaten the world.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• I'm a big believer you should design work around a vast majority of people who want to do the right thing rather than around the tiny minority who might take advantage.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • People
  • Work
  • Design

• Zero-sum thinking is an obsession of mine, but mostly in economics.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Thinking
  • Economics
  • Mine

• Kids come out of the chute liking science. They ask, 'How come? Why? What's this?' They pick up stuff to examine it. We might not call that science, but it's discovering the world around us.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Up
  • World
  • Why

• Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Understand
  • Accept

• I don't like when I look too cluttered.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Like
  • Look
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• I'm going to be a vice president very much like George Bush was. He proved to be a very effective vice president, perhaps the most effective we've had in a couple of hundred years.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Like
  • Couple
  • Years

• I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Distance

• You can't just tell your team, 'Think long term.' It doesn't work that way. When you are starting out, you have to always think about trying to build something of value for the customer: something they can use all the time, something of use.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.

  

  Evgeny Morozov
  • Want
  • Clear
  • Implications

• Images at their passionate and truthful best are as powerful as words can ever be. If they alone cannot bring change, they can at least provide and understanding mirror of man's actions, thereby sharpening human awareness and awakening conscience.

  

  Cornell Capa
  • Powerful
  • Mirror
  • Actions

• The structural difference between enantiomers can be serious with respect to the actions of synthetic drugs.

  

  Ryoji Noyori
  • Respect
  • Actions
  • Drugs

• You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold.

  

  William Hurt
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Promise

• English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Simple
  • Language
  • Identity

• All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Actions
  • Man's
  • Impulses