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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If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.
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No matter how high are one's estimates of human stupidity, one is repeatedly and recurrently startled by the fact that:a) people whom one had once judged rational and intelligent turn out to be unashamedly stupid.b) day after day, with unceasing monotony, one is harassed in one's activities by stupid individuals who appear suddenly and unexpectedly in the most inconvenient places and at the most improbable moments.
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A lot of philosophy is bull***t, but a lot of it is what we write songs about too. And it's organizing your thoughts, organizing your intellect.
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Sophia Loren would be a glamour girl even if she were in rags selling fish. She has the look, the movement and the intellect.
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Neither happiness nor grief are everlasting in this life - but one of the two is everlasting in the next. Which one do you want?
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The Geometer has the special privilege to carry out, by abstraction, all constructions by means of the intellect.
