Paul Erdos Quotes

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

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• I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • Friends
  • Never
  • Movies

• A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Long
  • Important
  • Pretty

• In poor countries, the rich and powerful crush the poor and powerless.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Powerful
  • Rich
  • Crush

• Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • You
  • Embrace

• I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.

  

  Tanya Roberts
  • Ugly
  • Reached
  • Puberty

• Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Building
  • Differences
  • Out

• We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • World
  • Country
  • Training

• Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.

  

  Gautam Adani
  • Up
  • Fall
  • See

• Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Control
  • Wish
  • Process

• A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Me
  • Pen
  • Hen

• People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • People
  • Fun
  • Have Fun

• Low income persons in need of social housing should be housed in more prosperous areas to avoid placing an extra burden on the poorer areas and to redress the balance in terms of housing, redressing the balance in terms of schooling.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Balance
  • Need
  • Housing

• I did green screen for the first time! I wouldn't like to do a whole movie of green screen, though. You kind of forget the plot a little - like being in a Broadway play and doing it over and over and forgetting your line halfway through.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Forget

• When I got diagnosed, the more research I did about it – MS overall, as a subject, as a disease – there's a lot of misconceptions and there's a lot of unknowns about it, and there wasn't anyone out that was close to my age or close to anything like me out there.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Disease
  • Close
  • Diagnosed

• Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Contract year or not a contract year, I'm playing the exact same way and focused on the exact same things.

  

  Blake Griffin

• But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot.

  

  Vijay Kumar
  • Eyes
  • Coffee
  • Drinking

• There's different kinds of improv. There's Second City improv where you try to slowly build a nice sketch. There's stuff you do in college coffee houses where you just go joke, joke, joke. Bring another funny character with a funny hat on his head. Christopher Guest is more the line of trying to get a story out.

  

  Fred Willard
  • Different
  • Trying
  • Character

• Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Christian
  • Values
  • Roots

• I decided to restore 'Napoleon' after a widescreen festival at the Odeon Leicester Square in 1968. It was run by Richard Arnell and George Dunning, who animated and directed 'Yellow Submarine,' and they'd got their hands on the last scene, the triptychs. They just showed that part, without music and with the projectors misaligned.

  

  Kevin Brownlow
  • Music
  • Napoleon

• Honestly, I would love to be friends with Fox Mulder on 'The X-Files.' That's almost a little too obvious, but that would be my answer. I'd love to hang out with him.

  

  Kumail Nanjiani
  • Friends

• A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

  

  Paul Erdos
  • Coffee
  • Mathematician