Alfred Nobel Quotes
A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Alfred Nobel
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All I listened to until age 18 growing up was musical theater. I liked the escapism of it.
Rachel Bloom
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We need a President who is fighting for all Americans, not one who writes off nearly half the country.
Barack Obama
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His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
Barbara W. Tuchman
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A mother’s traditional role prepared her to love her family by being with the family she loved.
Warren Farrell
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Sorry, I’m not at home. I have gone out to my world Fancy, and I cannot be reached. Call back in a week, unless your business is urgent, in which case call back in a month.
Jack Vance
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The only thing that we know is that we know nothing - and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
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What's really going on here is, this is a media shift. It's comparable to what happened in the 1950s and the birth of electronic mass media back then.This is the birth of a new kind of personal media, where, instead of we're all watching one program, we're all watching each other. And the history of media makes it really clear. Whenever we have a big innovation, the first wave of stuff we do is pretty crummy. The printing press gave us pornography, cheap thrillers, and how-to books. Television gave us Newt Minow's vast wasteland.
Esther Dyson
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I'm looking for things where, like with 'Ten,' I don't look like me, and I'm playing something a bit different. I'm just trying to flex a different muscle and see if it works. I've saved the world and killed monsters and done all that. Now I want to try something a bit different and a bit more challenging.
Sam Worthington
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When I was eleven, my mother gave me Robert K. Massie's 'Nicholas and Alexandra.' It was the first 'grownup' book I read, and I loved it.
Kathryn Harrison
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How you going to stop me, cupcake? Hit me with your book bag?" "If I have to.
Rachel Caine
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
T. Boone Pickens
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A recluse without books and ink is already in life a dead man.
Alfred Nobel