Albert Einstein Quotes
Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
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In Los Angeles, I'm always in Fred Segal. It's become a ritual. I have lunch and then buy lots of things I don't need. Usually tons of clothes for the kids that they grow out of in 10 seconds.
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I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
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I don't know what to do when I'm not working. I lose my mind if I'm not constantly doing something.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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My M.O. is just do what you do and don't feel like you have to make apologies for it. I'm sure there will come a point when I have to apologize for something, but not yet.
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My forte is awkwardness.
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Job's forthright indictment of the injustice of this world is surely right. The ways of the world are weird and much more unpredictable than either scientists or theologians generally make things look.
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I think that when I die, it might be some time until I know it.
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The guest to me was always paramount.
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When I first came out, like a lot of the artists at that time, I had a very polished, very overproduced sound.
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If I'm in danger then it's usually my fault and it's up to me to get myself out of it. I am not in it just to get an adrenalin rush. No way!
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I think if something is worth doing, it's worth doing well. And worth thinking about it as well.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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I don't know about you, but I love going on trips - especially with my family.
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Like it or not, we are all liars. Thank goodness. Imagine going through life where everyone is completely honest: 'Those shoes... look like something out of an early Cyndi Lauper video.' 'Your daughter... looks like the spawn of Honey Boo Boo and Elmer Fudd.'
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Most of all, I want to thank you for all the generous advance coverage you've given me in anticipation of a successful career. When I actually do something, we'll let you know.
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A person who is transformed by the instructions of a teacher, devotes himself to study, and abides by ritual and rightness may become a noble person, while one who follows his nature and emotions, is content to give free play to his passions, and abandons ritual and rightness is a lesser person.
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We stink more of the world than we stink of sack cloth and ashes. A lot of contemporary churches today would feel more at home in a movie house rather than in a house of prayer, more afraid of holy living than of sinning, know more about money than magnifying Christ in our bodies. It is so compromised that holiness and living a sin-free life is heresy to the modern church. The modern church is, quite simply, just the world with a Christian T-shirt on!
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Vietnam only made billionaires out of millionaires. Iraq is making trillionaires out of billionaires. Now I call that progress.
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[My characters are] conglomerations of past and present stages of civilization, bits from books and newspapers, scraps of humanity, rags and tatters of fine clothing, patched together as is the human soul.
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I myself believe that there is in every painter's life a period of making absurdities. In my case I think that period is already long past.
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Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.
