Albert Einstein Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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There's so many confusing messages that you're being sent about being pretty but not too pretty, smart but not too smart, ambitious but in a way that makes people comfortable. It's very hard to navigate.
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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I don't ever want anything to come in the way of me truthfully telling a story.
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For an artist, a good place to be is you have some kind of influence and power to get things done, but in your essence you remain a nomad or a soldier facing a difficulty to be overcome.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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My whole career has been trying to please people in basketball. Now it's time to please myself.
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How can I wage political battle against a widow who does not mean anyone any harm except only the president himself?
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Panama's a really wonderful country. There's obviously the Panama Canal, which brings a lot of tourism, and a huge American influence; it's just a mix of so many great things: African, Caribbean, Latin American Spanish, all kinds of influences there.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being's, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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I have a very short attention span.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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wit, wit! - I look upon it always as a draught of air; it cools indeed, but one gets a stiff neck from it.
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I think the dark psychology of human beings is very interesting as an artist.
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It is a question of personal appeal and conviction, rather than any argument. The cards I fancy are sympathy, understanding of his hopes, suspicions and disappointments, but above all, striving to convey to him, through what one says, a real echo of the sincerity that pervaded your doings in London.
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I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.
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Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
