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I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

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• I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Think
  • Playing
  • Average

• I'm totally fine with people criticizing me in shows... people like this show, or don't; you're entitled to your opinion. But when people are criticizing you as a person, I have to say it's a little bit different.

  

  Tamera Mowry
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Person

• I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • War
  • Reading
  • Star

• Terrorism is not new to black people.

  

  Vernon Jordan
  • People
  • Black
  • Terrorism

• Well, you know, I left Cuba as a kid when I was 6 years old back in 1971.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Know
  • Years
  • Old

• When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Movie
  • You
  • See

• I have a checklist of things I'd like to do in movies. One of them is get possessed. Die on a deathbed with a ghostly pallor - that's on my list.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Die
  • Like
  • Movies

• Seeing a full display of humanity involved in space is a game-changer for everyone. We've all looked at the stars; we've all imagined what was going on. Not everyone wants to go, but everyone wants to know what it's like.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Game
  • Space
  • Humanity

• I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Think
  • Like
  • Never

• Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and religious liberty.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Religious

• The education ministry files suit every time there is a case of identity fraud.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Time
  • Education
  • Identity

• If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary, be not idle.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Kindness

• For all families, participation in music and the arts, can help people reclaim and achieve the American dream.

  

  Linda Ronstadt
  • People
  • Music
  • American

• Computing is just a fabulous place for that, because it's a place where you don't have to be a Ph.D. or anything else. It's a place where you can still be an artisan. People are willing to pay you if you're any good at all, and you have plenty of time for screwing around.

  

  Alan Kay
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Rest

• The act of navigation is not favourable to foreign commerce, or to the growth of that opulence which can arise from it. ... As defence, however, is of much more importance than opulence, the act of navigation is, perhaps, the wisest of all the commercial regulations of England.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Growth

• But he has left us the legacy of heroes—the memory of his great name, and the inspiration of his great example.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Inspiration
  • Legacy
  • Example

• I think in terms of the parents that I had, I sort of drew a bad hand, or bad karma; who knows? And I did have a family that was complicated, with some quite eccentric members. So there was a lot of grist there.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
  • Family
  • Bad
  • Parents

• But leave me to my beer! Gold is dross, love is loss, so if I gulp my sorrows down, or see them drown in foamy draughts of old nut-brown, then I do wear the crown, without the cross!

  

  George Arnold
  • Gold
  • Loss
  • Sorrows

• One of the clues that I chased was that Dan Cooper, whoever he was, found an old magazine story called "How to Leave Your Life." And followed the directions on how to leave your life, and just went to the beach one day with his wife and kids, and said he needed to go to the bathroom, and went to the restroom at the beach and never came home.

  

  Geoffrey Gray
  • Beach
  • Needed
  • Magazines

• Modern women - we're very good at keeping ourselves busy. There are PTA meetings, exercising, bake sales at school. I like that my life is not the same every day.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Life
  • Good
  • Women

• Good day, fair maidens.

  

  Val Venis
  • Good

• I made the first Moebius strip without knowing what it was.

  

  Max Bill