Shakuntala Devi Quotes
Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
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Free trade is not based on utility but on justice.
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Every hero becomes a bore at last.
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I'm always writing. I'm an obsessive. It's not because I'm a disciplined person. It's because I'm crazy about it.
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I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
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I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.
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I don't want to be idealized by a patient because of what I've written.
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I had wanted to be a sculptor throughout life, but to do so, I had to stop painting.
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I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.
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You were born as the one you are.
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I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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I started doing improv my sophomore year.
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Within the U.N. itself, I have appointed a record number of women to high-level positions. I did not fill jobs with women just for the sake of it - I looked for the best possible candidate, and I found that if you strip away discrimination, the best possible candidate is often a woman.
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The most alarming sign of the state of our society now is that our leaders have the courage to sacrifice the lives of young people in war, but have not the courage to tell us that we must be less greedy and less wasteful.
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How sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself.
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[I am fascinated by stupidity] because normal intelligence is boring. Two plus two makes four - finished. You have no possibilities! Stupidity is infinite. Two plus two can make billions of different numbers.
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I'm ultimately drawn to film many kinds of stories if they are sort of about unlocking the secrets of our human potential.
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Whatever is not forbidden is permitted.
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You are the stars and the world is watching you. By your presence, you send a message to every village, every city, every nation. A message of hope. A message of victory.
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
