Daniel Tammet Quotes
Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.
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Indians are marvelous storytellers. In some ways, that oral tradition is stronger than the written tradition.
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My people were homesteading in Colorado before Emancipation.
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I really feel that the best actors out there are very centric. They're really connected. They're not in a, 'What about me' state, and I think that's a good lesson in life.
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A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.
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I didn't have children, but I never wanted children.
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I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realise that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.
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I want to do work that has a message and casts a light over an area that's dark. But I'm fun and jovial, too.
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I live in Canada in the summer and some time in the fall.
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Rag & bone images always reflect the authenticity of the brand. Their images have character and tell a story.
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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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Yeah, you know, I'm always into cassette. At least they seem to be the longest-lasting medium we used to have. I don't play cassettes much anymore, but I play records all the time.
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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits.
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People where we come from hear so many lies that the truth stands out like a sore thumb.
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Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
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I love that first-time feeling that I can't build in myself anymore, where I can learn and emulate other filmmakers. Be it Ayan Mukherjee, Punit Mahotra, Karan Malhotra, Tarun Mansukhani or Shakun Batra, all of them have taught me something or the other.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.
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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.
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If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy?
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Squaring numbers is a symmetrical process that I like very much. And when I divide one number by another, say, 13 divided by 97, I see a spiral rotating downwards in larger and larger loops that seem to warp and curve. The shapes coalesce into the right number. I never write anything down.
