Albert Einstein Quotes
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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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Blackness is a state of mind, and I identify with the black community. Mainly, because I realized, early on, when I walk into a room, people see a black woman, they don't see a white woman. So out of that reason alone, I identify more with the black community.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
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I grew up playing basketball and baseball. I've always been active because my dad played professional football, so sports and working out have always been a part of my life.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.
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I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.
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In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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I read somewhere once that in the 1960s, fiction writers were troubled by the notion that life was becoming stranger and more sensational than made-up stories could ever hope to be. Our new problem - more profound, I think - is that life no longer resembles a story. Events intersect but don't progress. People interact but don't make contact.
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The first album, for better or for worse, was done over from the ages of 17-22, with a couple of different producers. Some of it was recorded in an old swimming pool, some of it was recorded in a synagogue - it kind of was all over the place.
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I'd love to go into space again if there were a mission to Mars. I'd also love to go to a completely different planetary system, out of our solar system.
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The subway in New York is a great social experiment; there are so many races and ways of life sitting together on each car.
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I've always believed you can't predict love. You can't qualify or quantify it. Can't dissect it. Love hits you like a truck or the flu, coming up from out of nowhere to knock you to your knees. Love burns you up alive.
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I am the despair of my accountant; I am the plastic bags of receipts.
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No Ghost of any common sense begins a conversation.
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The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
