David Hilbert Quotes

One of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

David Hilbert

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• Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Up
  • Good
  • Trying

• Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Energy
  • Growth

• Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Audience
  • Innocent

• People are totally overusing LOL and a wink - and I'm very guilty of using the wink - that's probably my favourite emoticon to use because 'I'm being sarcastic, don't misinterpret; don't misconstrue; I'm just kidding.' Again, for as many benefits as it has, also picking up the phone and having a conversation speaks volumes.

  

  Carly Pope
  • People
  • Up
  • Guilty

• Representative Willis has introduced a bill, modeled after a Chicago law, to hold gun stores accountable for flooding our streets with weapons. Thousands of guns recovered by the Chicago Police Department can be traced back to just a handful of stores.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Law
  • Police
  • Gun

• Romania strongly supports Turkey's E.U. accession.

  

  Victor Ponta
  • Turkey
  • Strongly
  • Romania

• The Broken Bow group is such a great family and seem like a group of tight-knit people. When I looked for a new label, I wanted to feel I could trust everybody. I wanted motivation to be at an all-time high.

  

  Fatima Siad
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Men
  • Women
  • Eating

• For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

  

  J. Courtney Sullivan
  • World
  • Think
  • Care

• I have a knife collection.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Collection
  • Knife

• Thin people are beautiful, but fat people are adorable.

  

  Jackie Gleason
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Adorable

• I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, and certainly 'Frankenstein' had a very dramatic power rock image. It was almost a precursor of heavy metal and fusion. But I also love jazz and classical and if there's one common thread that runs through all my music, it is blues.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Music
  • Love
  • Power

• It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?

  

  Zac Hanson Hanson
  • Good
  • Job
  • Success

• I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Fear
  • Understand

• In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people.

  

  Sam Rayburn
  • People
  • Character
  • Energy

• Unemployment to a man is the psychological equivalent of rape to a woman.

  

  Warren Farrell

• In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Spiritual

• ...the differences between U.S. and Japanese companies go beyond the cultural.

  

  Akio Morita
  • Japanese

• I've noticed that sometimes when you keep things a little smaller, it's easier to focus on the creative aspects of what you're doing.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Focus
  • Sometimes
  • Creative

• I'm a big sports fan. Football. Cricket.

  

  Danny Boyle
  • Football
  • Sports

• When I was a kid, we would build pillow forts. My pillow fort was always like Ice Station 9 in Antarctica. The other kids would come by and be like, 'Oh! The wind and snow is blowing.' From a young age, I wanted to be out there and surviving. I'm a high-strung, hyperactive guy.

  

  Conrad Anker
  • Kids
  • High
  • Age

• The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • People
  • High
  • Wire

• Each of us carries around those growing up places, the institutions, a sort of backdrop, a stage set. So often we act out the present against the backdrop of the past, within a frame of perception that is so familiar, so safe that is is terrifying to risk changing it even when we know our perceptions are distorted, limited, constricted by that old view.

  

  Chandra Talpade Mohanty
  • Past
  • Growing
  • Risk

• One of the supreme achievements of purely intellectual human activity.

  

  David Hilbert