Alfred Nobel Quotes
Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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The discovery of personal whiteness among the world's peoples is a very modern thing - a nineteenth and twentieth century matter, indeed. The ancient world would have laughed at such a distinction.
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My only friends were boys, and I was just one more of them.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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All of us are going to have to find ways to do things more efficiently, find ways to get our costs more in line, and do it in a time of higher regulatory and environmental standards.
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Well, I don't throw things. This particular night I brought one from the floor so to speak, and he ended up getting a cut over his head, and the police came, took him to another side of the hotel, and that was like September 6, 1981.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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People who meet me as an adult are often surprised that I'm alive and have never been in prison or rehab. Sometimes they're disappointed I'm not cooler.
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Because of the Turing completeness theory, everything one Turing-complete language can do can theoretically be done by another Turing-complete language, but at a different cost. You can do everything in assembler, but no one wants to program in assembler anymore.
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Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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I'm an immigrant and I've always wanted to write something about America.
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I wouldn't say I'm bigger than Jesus. If I had to guess, I'd say probably, yeah, but as far as I know, the bible is never clear on this.
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My whole family's been in the business. My whole family is crazy.
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Fidesz's different air and its own culture must be preserved.
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Alfred Nobel - pitiable half-creature, should have been stifled by humane doctor when he made his entry yelling into life. Greatest merits: Keeps his nails clean and is never a burden to anyone. Greatest fault: Lacks family, cheerful spirits, and strong stomach. Greatest and only petition: Not to be buried alive. Greatest sin: Does not worship Mammon. Important events in his life: None.
