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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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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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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It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.
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There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!
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... the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Nine tenths of the ills from which intelligent people suffer spring from their intellect.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
