Albert Einstein Quotes
I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz.
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Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to.
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I've often said that all poetry is political. This is because real poems deal with a human response to reality and politics is part of reality, history in the making. Even if a poet writes about sitting in a glass house drinking tea, it reflects politics.
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All change is bad. But sometimes it has to be done.
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The Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument may be distant from our shores, but it will help us understand how healthy marine ecosystems work and how we can revive troubled seas closer to home.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
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Life has been kind to me. I am happy with the love and appreciation that I have been getting throughout my career. I feel blessed.
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I just couldn't stand school. If I went, I'd skip after the first class. I didn't like to be told I had to study and had to do homework. There's a fact that you have to want to learn.
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In passing, also, I would like to say that the first time Adam had a chance he laid the blame on a woman.
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I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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I think if I could do it over again - as much as I loved meeting the people I did on the films after 'Matilda' - I wish that I had stopped after 'Matilda.' I wish that I had just focused on my own life for a while.
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I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
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Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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My art will reflect not necessarily conscious politics but the unanalysed politics of my life.
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.
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I think you always need to be able to relate to your characters, but that doesn't necessarily mean...you have to understand why they do what they do, but you don't actually have to be like that yourself.
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
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I'm reluctant to get involved in science fiction, because I feel like I've done it and done it well, so unless something comes along that I feel has the potential to do something even more interesting, it seems a shame to sort of re-live something in half-measures.
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I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.
