Albert Einstein Quotes

We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

Albert Einstein

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• I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Starbucks

• I used to stay up all night playing 'Resident Evil 2,' and it wouldn't stop until the sun came up. Then I'd walk outside at dawn's first light, looking at the empty streets of London, and it was like life imitating art. It felt like I'd stepped into an actual zombie apocalypse.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Life
  • Up
  • Art

• There are no rebels in the cinema business.

  

  Beatrice Dalle
  • Business
  • Cinema
  • Rebels

• I really enjoy English and poetry and writing classes.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • English

• Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Different
  • Facebook

• Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Long
  • Summer
  • June

• We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Single

• If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Work
  • Book
  • Day

• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Clothing

• As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'

  

  Dan T. Cathy
  • God
  • Society
  • Marriage

• You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Sometimes

• If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Music
  • Together
  • King

• Children must be considered in a divorce considered valuable pawns in the nasty legal and financial contest that is about to ensue.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Children
  • Financial
  • Divorce

• I have some of the old videos of my performances on it.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Old
  • Some
  • Videos

• U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Resolutions

• The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Success
  • Start
  • Scared

• People talk about method actors, meaning someone that's prepared very, very well, or whatever they mean when they talk about it. But the right method is whatever works for you. And what works for me on any given day is going to be different.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Different
  • Day

• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Mother
  • Law
  • Never

• One of the clues that I chased was that Dan Cooper, whoever he was, found an old magazine story called "How to Leave Your Life." And followed the directions on how to leave your life, and just went to the beach one day with his wife and kids, and said he needed to go to the bathroom, and went to the restroom at the beach and never came home.

  

  Geoffrey Gray
  • Beach
  • Needed
  • Magazines

• If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • America
  • Future
  • Stand

• Like mothers, taxes are often misunderstood, but seldom forgotten.

  

  George Bramwell, 1st Baron Bramwell
  • Forgotten
  • Taxes
  • Misunderstood

• To portray not only a boxer but a boxer like Roberto Duran, I needed to understand all the difficulties and the pressures of the sport itself.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Understand
  • Difficulties

• We can understand almost anything, but we can't understand how we understand.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Understand