Albert Einstein Quotes
It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
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People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.
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Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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Any country that wants to lower its mobile phone rates, all they need to do is bring in an aggressive player.
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Gospel music rhythms are not African in origin, although I know that's what the jazz experts say.
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I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
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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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There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I see Baccarat in major gateway cities like Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and Hong Kong and exotic resort locations.
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My childhood ambition was to be an Olympic swimmer like my aunt, but that died a quick death when I discovered other sports. I swam very competitively till I was 15, then I swam for fun until I was 18. But athletics remain a very big part of my life.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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If I'm creating something for myself, then I want to have fun.
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If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
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Interesting enough, we had a reunion of the 12 of us who graduated, right? The only one who wasn't there was the guy who became a priest, and he was literally in prison in Libya, for being a Catholic priest. Isn't that interesting? Everybody else made the reunion but that guy.
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My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.
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I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.
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It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.
