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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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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My son is a Liverpool fan, and he was already kicking a ball before he was one. He was born in the football city; he had no choice.
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The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious-it makes little or no difference.
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Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight.
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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.
