George Gamow Quotes

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  

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• Comparing in the past years, Tamyra Gray and everyone else that didn't win but their careers are doing well.

  

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• The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

  

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• If there is an authoritarian structure at St. Hill it has been brought into being by the government itself. St. Hill is trying to correct itself. It doesn't know what it's trying to correct because nobody has told it what to correct.

  

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• Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.

  

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• Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.

  

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• Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.

  

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• I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.

  

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• I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.

  

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• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

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• Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

  

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• As a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist's tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I'd talk anyway.

  

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• It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.

  

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• They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.

  

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• Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.

  

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• We've announced an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance, a bunch of low-cost commodity servers running Linux, integrated in our case, with InfiniBand - connected with InfiniBand vs. the traditional Ethernet.

  

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• Deal with the Devil if the Devil has a constituency - and don't complain about the heat.

  

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• The decision-making process was very difficult: is this how I want my career to start, with playing Jodie Dallas on this show?

  

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• I think that, in addition of the intersection of media and technology, there has also been an intersection between technology and finance, which is something I find a little closer to home, seeing as I spend so much time covering Wall Street banks.

  

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• If I'm going to work, I put black jeans on, a T-shirt, a shirt, and a jacket.

  

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• All I can really remember doing was listening to the radio and listening to records when I was at school. I wasn't very academic, and I certainly wasn't a very good student.

  

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• There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

  

  George Gamow
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