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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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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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 only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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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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People recognize me all the time. I think it's really nice. I don't mind it at all. It feels kind of surreal when people know who you are and I think that it's really cool.
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I started taking voice when I was six and dance classes every day - I just couldn't get enough.
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I always felt that the most common thread in my life from when I was young until now has been a highly observant, very analytical mind.
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Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.
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I have a 6-year-old niece who doesn't look like the majority of girls on the covers of magazines. I hope that by the time she's 16, the world will have changed.
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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
