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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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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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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My voice, I have to say, is kind of miraculous because I was born with a cleft palate.
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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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I am the conductor for life of the Staatskapelle in Berlin, which fills me with tremendous joy because I feel absolutely at one with them. When we play, I have a feeling that together we manage to create one collective lung for the whole orchestra so that everybody in the stage breathes the music in the same way.
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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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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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I'm a member and preacher to that church where the blind don't see and the lame don't walk and what's dead stays that way.
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Around the world, Gandhi, Nelson Mandela -- what they did was hard. It takes time. It takes more than a single term. It takes more than a single president. It takes more than a single individual.
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Everyone has their own talents. It's up to the individual to see what you can actually do.
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Human curation allows you to have the emotion and feel music, because it is a very emotional thing. It makes you feel happy; it helps you when you are feeling sad, gets you pumped up, calms you down.
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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.
