James C. Maxwell Quotes
Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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Homosexuality in Russia is a crime and the punishment is seven years in prison, locked up with the other men. There is a three year waiting list.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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I don't think I ever write songs involving politics, because they get dated way too quick. Any view you have can usually be made into something more general, and that can stand throughout time.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Contrary to what many Westerners believe, Islam has a rich tradition of secular painting in spite of its ban on images. It is only in religious rituals that the use of pictorial representation is totally prohibited.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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I do love comedy, and when it's a comedy moment and you can make people laugh, of course it is wonderful.
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I think sometimes good sentimentality is fun when it's balanced.
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The relationship between East and West needs to be and can be fixed via pop culture.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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A true world outlook is incompatible with a foreign imperialism, no matter how high-minded the governing country.
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Space opera has always given authors a way to include a vast array of ideas and concepts. The opportunities it provides are limitless. Long may it reign.
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What Must-See T.V. was all about was one network, one night, for one decade. And a third of the country would come and watch Must-See T.V. And you didn't dare go to work the next day, because if you hadn't watched, you would be left out of the conversation, that water-cooler conversation.
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I had it in my contract with CBS, a very weird clause that was never written before and certainly not since, that if I wanted to do a variety show within the first five years of the contract, CBS would have to put it on for 30 shows.
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Mathematicians may flatter themselves that they possess new ideas which mere human language is as yet unable to express.
