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!Johnny Ball
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
Sam Altman -
You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.
Cam Gigandet -
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld -
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!'
Sam Claflin -
Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside.
Lady Gaga -
When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
Garrett Hedlund
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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.
Zooey Deschanel -
But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
Frances Farmer -
The point of an accelerator is to teach you about companies and business, not about technology.
Sam Altman -
I don't think I talk to anybody the same way I talk to Moby.
Damian Loeb -
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.
Sam Weller -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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
Andy Partridge -
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.
Lennox Lewis -
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.
Margaret Cho -
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.
Louis Althusser -
Intimacies between women go backwards, beginning in revelations and ending up in small talk without loss of esteem.
Elizabeth Bowen -
Topshop is the best. I don't know how I'd live without it. Most of my clothes are from there.
Poppy Delevingne
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I don't know if anyone should do anything that's not authentic to them.
Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony -
I was raised by this whole community of artists. It was pretty wild.
Alexander Skarsgard -
Equity is compromised due to the privatisation of education. Education has become a commodity. Those who can afford to buy it, buy it, and those who can sell it make money out of it
Kailash Satyarthi -
Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us.
Benjamin Franklin -
I've gotten to hang out with Elmo, I'm the Fairy Shoeperson on 'Sesame Street'. So hopefully our kids will get to see and hear me as much as they're able.
Neil Patrick Harris -
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!
Johnny Ball