Albert Einstein Quotes
I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.
Quotes to Explore
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The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.
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Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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The world that you and I live in is increasingly challenged. Population growth, pollution, over-consumption, unsustainable patterns, social conflict, climate change, loss of nature... these are not good stories.
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If you go back and watch 'The French Connection,' it's been cannibalized so many times. There are certain movies like that, where you see the original and think, 'This isn't so great.' And the reason it isn't so great is because everyone has copied it.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Kids, don't be too big to accept advice.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
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In doing my podcast, I do find that I tend to try out bits that I then try on stage later that day. If they work, great, and if they don't, I regret having talked about it on the podcast.
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A strong sense of identity gives man an idea he can do no wrong; too little accomplishes the same.
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We don’t need better emotional communication from machines. We need people to have more empathy. The reason the Uncanny Valley exists is because humans created it to put other people into. It’s how we justify killing each other.
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I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason.
