John von Neumann Quotes
When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
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Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Carl Sandburg
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I think 'The Color of Money' was very instrumental in opening up other opportunities. People started to recognize me as an artist after that film. And then, after I did 'Bird,' it was more solidified.
Forest Whitaker
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
Barbara Jordan
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
Gary Hamel
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
Jackie Earle Haley
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
Pamela Stephenson
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That's one of the lucky things about getting the success later on. I know how I want to dress, I know what kind of house I want to live in, I just know more about myself, and that's true about the roles I want to play and what parts of myself I want to express. You're just more in touch with yourself.
Naomi Watts
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Never thought acting was something you could make a living at. It wasn't until I was in college, and got a lead in a play, that I began to realize I might just be able to blunder into this profession.
Ed Asner
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Microsoft makes numerous apps for both Android and iOS, as do Google, Amazon and Facebook. You can run iTunes and iCloud on Windows and Office on the Mac.
Walt Mossberg
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
Felicity Huffman
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
Ulrich Beck
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I find playwriting to be incredibly difficult compared to screenwriting. Part of it is that I grew up watching movies and not watching plays.
Zoe Kazan
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I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.
Wayne Grady
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
Mamie Gummer
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
Barry Diller
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I get used to my fountain pens and my clothes, and I can never throw them away. I replace them only when I see that they are broken or embarrassing to wear.
Orhan Pamuk
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
Taylor Swift
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I don't like writing with real people in mind.
Laura Wade
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Leaving sex to the feminists is like letting your dog vacation at the taxidermist.
Camille Paglia
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I don't understand people who spend their twenties hanging out in bars and going to football game. That stuff is so boring compared to really applying yourself to what you do.
Charlie Trotter
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For him was lever han at his beddes hed A twenty bokes, clothed in black or red, Of Aristotle, and his philosophie, Than robes riche, or fidel, or sautrie. But all be that he was a philosophre, Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.
Geoffrey Chaucer
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May we never let the things we can't have or don't have or shouldn't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.
Richard L. Evans
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When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language of the nervous system.
John von Neumann