Alfred Nobel Quotes

Lawyers have to make a living, and can only do so by inducing people to believe that a straight line is crooked.

Alfred Nobel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: scientist
  • Nationality: swedish
  • Birth: October 21, 1833 - December 10, 1896

Topics

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I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.

John Boyega

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Fat jokes aren't relevant, but they're hilarious when you find them.

Joan Rivers

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I remember when I was doing 'The Crucible' on Broadway with Laura Linney, and Arthur Miller had been in rehearsal with us and was on stage on opening night. She turned to me during the curtain call and said, 'Let's make sure we remember this.'

John Benjamin Hickey

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John Cusack and I have been friends since childhood, and the fact that we're in so many films together is, no pun intended, serendipitous.

Jeremy Piven

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Games have to be relevant intellectually.

Jenova Chen

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I get very intense: I get to the show five hours early. If we're on at 8 P.M., I'm there at 3 in the afternoon.

Meat Loaf

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Call me old-fashioned, but it's always been my firm belief that a teacher's job should be for each of his or her students to finish the year with a grade of 100%.

Steven Crowder

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It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

Jared Leto

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Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment.

Jon Meacham

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The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Denzel Washington

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The uncertainty of parenting can bring up feelings in us that range from frustration to terror.

Brene Brown

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The Long and the Short and the Tall made a great impression on me because it was a very ugly tale about the reality of soldiering at a time when we were being gung-ho about the whole thing of war.

Timothy West

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