Johnny Ball Quotes
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
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Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.
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It's cool cause my sister is older than me and we went to the same high school, so by the time I got to high school, I got the lowdown on all the teachers and everything.
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Our policy is very clear: whatever policy will suit the people, whatever policy will suit the circumstances, whatever policy will suit my state.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
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I'm very skeptical about the good intentions of Milosevic.
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I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
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Bradbury would have said his plots are myths and metaphors that tell stories about the human condition. That's what sets him apart from other science-fiction writers: He doesn't write about technology, but about the human heart and psyche.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection.
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I wonder wonder why the wonder falls I wonder why the wonder falls on me I wonder wonder why the wonder falls With everything I touch and hear and see
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I've found that taking shortcuts will get you to the place you don't want to be much quicker than they get u to the place u want to be.
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I'm always on my guard now.
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I really don't storyboard unless it's an action sequence of some kind, but I plan carefully.
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I don't believe in being vengeful or trying to send a message to someone. You waste your energy that way.
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Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
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Tyranny is for the worst of treasons.
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If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
