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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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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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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I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism.
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It is in his pleasures that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self.
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We are effectively living in a world of communications and information abundance.
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I made a stamp with Destiny's Child. We made a stamp together, above anything. And making a stamp on my own, I'm very proud.
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If a woman [has] shared her body with me, why can I not speak of my experience?...It’s not me casting a judgment on someone, it’s something that has happened. You can rap about whatever the hell you wanna rap about – that’s why we’re rappers. You can have an opinion against it but you can’t tell me not to do it. At the end of the day, that’s the way it is.
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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!
