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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If you see the NBA now, a lot of it is in transition. Most people now try to get an easy shot off in six or eight seconds before the defense gets set.
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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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God's sovereignty is not in His right hand; God's sovereignty is not in His intellect; God's sovereignty is in His love.
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The hand that follows intellect can achieve.
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Readers usually ignore the typographic interface, gliding comfortably along literacy's habitual groove. Sometimes, however, the interface should be allowed to fail. By making itself evident, typography can illuminate the construction and identity of a page, screen, place or product.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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To find yourself, think for yourself.
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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
