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Alfred Nobel Quotes

I am a misanthrope and yet utterly benevolent, have more than one screw loose yet am a super-idealist who digests philosophy more efficiently than food.

Alfred Nobel

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Food I Am Philosophy More Loose Who

Detroit is really a model for how wealthier and whiter Americans escape the costs of public goods they'd otherwise share with poorer and darker Americans.

Robert Reich

Detroit Escape Share Costs Model

I think right after 'Up in the Air' everyone wanted me to play the girl from 'Up in the Air,' and it took a little while for people to think of me as an actress from a film that they liked instead of just that character.

Anna Kendrick

Girl Character People Me Think Play

Senior development specialists in the Treasury can be counted on one hand. America's government is not even aware of the gap between its commitments and action, because almost nobody in authority understands the actions that would be needed to meet the commitments.

Jeffrey Sachs

Government Action America Meet Hand

While digital wallets are paving the way for the future of payments, you still need to assess whether or not they'll work for your business. If your target audience are less tech-savvy or you're primarily a cash-only business, it may not be worth investing too much into accepting digital payments.

John Rampton

Work Future Business Worth You Way

Working with actors who are directors is magnificent. Because they understand the art form intimately, and they know exactly how everything works.

Robert Zemeckis

Art Know Understand Everything Who

Look, the whole world wants to modernize, and when you look to what they mean by modernizing, they mean Americanize. Would a modern Greek prefer to live in Orange County than Piraeus? Yes. Absolutely.

Rupert Murdoch

Live World You Look Orange Mean

I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.

Mary Douglas

Good Today Religion Civilization Our

Prose is admittedly an art rooted in social intercourse, and a fiction writer is faster to find a common denominator with his cell mates than a poet is.

Joseph Brodsky

Art Find Fiction Poet Social Common

I kind of wonder if creativity is all morphing into one big thing that's not even art, but something universal and bigger.

Douglas Coupland

Art Creativity Wonder Kind Bigger

Unfortunately, the reality was that, for political reasons or whatever, there was a need to enforce antidiscrimination laws, or at least there was a perceived need to do that.

Clarence Thomas

Reality Political Need Whatever Laws

I started keeping track of my pet peeves and so far have counted over 160... but to pick one: muffins. They're imposters. They think they're breakfast food, but really, they are just terrible cupcakes.

Aubrey Peeples

Food Pet Breakfast Think Over Just

To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.

Phil Anselmo

Time Me Present Way More Write