Pythagoras Quotes
We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
Quotes to Explore
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Well, you know, in this crazy world of entertainment, I would say if you have a dream, you have to pursue it.
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Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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The Internet allows the small guy a global marketplace. But technology is harmful in the sense that we get too much information from it. Because of the web we get 10 times the amount of noise we ever got, which makes harmful fallacies far more likely.
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I'm a little bit like a turducken: I'm sort of like an Indian person, wrapped in a British person, wrapped in an American kind of thing.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.
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Corporate stand-up allowed me to make my own schedule and make money as if I was in show business.
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I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I hope to teach people that it's fine to make mistakes because they will learn from them, to be who they are, and to learn to love their bodies.
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A lot of wealthy people, they don't realize they have the alternatives of spending the money for good.
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We need to continue to build and support queer and trans communities and end the profiling and criminalization that so many face.
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We ought not to quit our post without the permission of Him who commands; the post of man is life.
