Daniel Tammet Quotes
Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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It isn't hard to find injustice around us, but we must not let injustice smear the good deeds that do occur everyday.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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No matter what you do, if there's something you're afraid of, you need to break through it.
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I'm not one icon. I'm every icon. I'm an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time. I have no restrictions. No restrictions.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.
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When I was climbing, I built up a close relationship with the Sherpa people.
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Secular thinkers have no more been able to work free of the centuries-old Judeo-Christian culture than Christian theologians were able to work free of their inheritance of classical and pagan thought. The process... has not been the deletion and replacement of religious ideas but rather the assimilation and reinterpretation of religious ideas.
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I think that what made people accept Starbuck as a woman was that she was just such an interesting character. I think that once people put their guard down and their preconceived notions of what the show is supposed to be and just allowed it to really be good science fiction.
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My clerkship with Justice Douglas was tremendously important. He told me, Christopher, get out into the stream of history and see what happens. I've tried to follow that advice.
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We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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Substantially fewer films will be produced over the next year or two. And a significant portion of the production costs of the reduced slate will be borne by hedge funds and other investment groups.
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As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.
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For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.
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I think it's time for me to get out, because at the moment I'm only thinking about fishing 21 hours a day, and they're the waking moments. And even when I close my eyes I'm thinking about it.
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Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.
