Evangelista Torricelli Quotes
The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
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A handicap is like trying to race and you have a ten pound weight stuck to your waist. That is a handicap.
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I think the silences we have on some issues are inductive of the fact that we need to write about them more, but I think there are some issues you have to write in a sensitive way and in a way that respects the reality of the situation. If you can't do that, you should leave them alone.
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Plato's philosophy is a dignified preface to future religion.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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Clothes are interesting and they're there to be played with. I like the idea of costume rather than fashion.
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Usually when I write a script, I have in mind some real people that I'm writing about, who don't always act in the film afterward.
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Everyone is looking for the hack, the secret to success without hard work.
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There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.
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If your character doesn't express himself or doesn't feel confident expressing himself, then you don't express yourself.
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We don't give importance to Page 3 or to appear at all the events. Our focus is on our kids and our home.
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I think each person you play has a little bit of you in it - you can't really help that.
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I can't beleive I'm here to tell the tale, this was my first brush with death, and God must have been looking after us and obviously, it wasn't our time.
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The distance that the dead have gone Does not at first appear; Their coming back seems possible For many an ardent year.And then, that we have followed them We more than half suspect, So intimate have we become With their dear retrospect.
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If a movie makes money, then it's a success.
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I don't feel like I have to please anyone. I feel free. I feel like I'm an adult. I'm grown. I can do what I want. I can say what I want. I can retire if I want. That's why I've worked hard.
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Every producer in Hollywood had set me down as a type. I was both amused and disappointed.
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Most of them, they serve the interests of the United States but are not building any kind of permanent structure for the country they are affecting.
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As a boy, I was a member of a club run by the famous reptile showman Ross Allen, and the club sent its members pseudoscientific papers mimeographed on construction paper with a three-hole punch.
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In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
