Albert Einstein Quotes
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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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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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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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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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An outsider's point of view is always handy.
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Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.
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All my books are made up of other books. They're all deeply structured on other fiction, because I was a student in fiction and I didn't have much actual living to draw on. I suspect a lot of other people's novels are like that, too, though they might be slower to talk about it.
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There's a lot of American people who like K-Pop for some reason. I don't know why, you know? But they like it even if they can't understand it because it has that style, that appeal.
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The education of peoples is a necessary precondition to peace.
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I've seen many films and read lots of thrillers - and I'm always disappointed that I can guess the story before the other viewers.
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We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.
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I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.
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Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake.
