Paul Erdos Quotes
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I'm a big crier in general. The right life insurance commercial will take me out for a couple of days.
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You win some, lose some, and wreck some.
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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I think part of my reputation has to do with the difficult roles I've played. Actors do tend to get identified with their characters.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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In cross-country skiing, athletes propel themselves over distances of ten and twenty miles - a physical challenge that places intense demands on the ability of their red blood cells to deliver oxygen to their muscles.
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Abraham Lincoln was killed by the forces of white supremacy.
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It is of the highest importance to provide equal access to the labour market. Governments should act to establish equitable employment standards and penalise racial discrimination.
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I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.
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I think the presence of caste in India, how the villages are geographically structured on caste lines, is very different from China. The presence of an egalitarian culture is striking in a Chinese village.
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I feel like woman was brought to this world to have family and kids.
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People come into your life and people leave it... you just have to trust that life has a road mapped out for you.
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After a major loss of dynamism in the 1960s, productivity growth rates began dropping in most countries, falling by half in the U.S. in the 1970s and more or less ceasing altogether in France, Germany and Britain in the late 1990s.
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I'm kind of proud of myself. I've been able to keep a certain grace about me, even in the times of disgrace and craziness.
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When you look at a commodities market you need hedgers and speculators. If you don't have one, you don't have a market. That's how it works.
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The purpose of the book is to see what happened to America; both to the people in it, and to its relationships with the rest of the world.
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I want to prove you don't need to have academic syntax to be intelligent.
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The laws of physics ... seem to be the product of exceedingly ingenious design... The universe must have a purpose.
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The purpose of life is to conjecture and prove.
