Martin Gardner Quotes
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges.
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As a major contemporary composer, Madonna should not let the eye dictate to the ear.
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I went 59.9 sec. when I was 18 and thought, 'Hmm, that was fast - let's see how much faster we can go and what the rest of the world can do to keep up.'
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When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent.
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I think the ideology of the Congress is closest to mine. Congress is a party where I should be. I have joined politics to bring change in society. The Congress gave me a chance with the Aadhaar project. It's a party that will allow me to bring change.
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What we have tried to instill across the league through ownership and management is that we stand for inclusiveness and to judge somebody on the merits.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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The reason I didn't fly over from Maui at their beck and call is my wife was about to have a baby at any time. Those guys knew that. These guys would not compromise and meet me halfway.
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Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.
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My favorite short-story writer is John Cheever.
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
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The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.
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If there wasn't no fight, there wasn't no weekend.
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I want to do things that terrify me, unless they're going to kill me.
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In hip-hop, sometimes that pace is so fast that you miss things. I don't mean literally miss lyrics; I just think there's an emotion in what these cats are saying that gets by you. When you slow things down, there's this emotion, this yearning.
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I don't live through my kids. But I do know what will happen in life, and I just want them well prepared.
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Despite the never-ending debate on the question of the role of government in America, there's been a strong tradition of protecting our undisputed, important natural treasures or taking on great common engineering challenges.
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The history of a man's soul, even the pettiest soul, is hardly less interesting and useful than the history of a whole people; especially when the former is the result of the observations of a mature mind upon itself, and has been written without any egotistical desire of arousing sympathy or astonishment. Rousseau's Confessions has precisely this defect – he read it to his friends.
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I have supported civil rights activity in my state. I have done my job with integrity, equality, and fairness for all.
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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There's no pressure; like Kate said, it is about carving your own future. No one is going to try to fill my mother's shoes; what she did was fantastic. It's about making your own future and your own destiny, and Kate will do a very good job of that.
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I would say I have compassion.
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There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
