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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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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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 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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It's just that it's been my experience in having sex with some straight men that the sex is over when he gets off. And I don't accept that. I want to have an orgasm. Not right now! This is the Isaac Stern Auditorium! No, I want to have one. I'll put a chalk board over the bed. One...one.
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The proletariat must seize state power in order to destroy the existing bourgeois state apparatus and, in a first phase, replace it with a quite different, proletarian, state apparatus, then in later phases set in motion a radical process, that of the destruction of the state.
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Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
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Topshop is the best. I don't know how I'd live without it. Most of my clothes are from there.
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I do consider myself a competitive person, but I'm not competitive to the point where I will do anything to win. I wouldn't step on somebody just to get to the next level. I would have to do it fair and square. I'm kind of competitive in a way to where I like to figure out things myself, and if I need help, I'll ask.
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I would not dare to say that there is a direct relation between mathematics and madness, but there is no doubt that great mathematicians suffer from maniacal characteristics, delirium, and symptoms of schizophrenia.
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I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
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Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
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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!
