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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Human infirmity in moderating and checking the emotions I name bondage : for, when a man is a prey to his emotions, he is not his own master, but lies at the mercy of fortune : so much so, that he is often compelled, while seeing that which is better for him, to follow that which is worse.
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If civilization is to survive, we must cultivate the science of human relationships - the ability of all peoples, of all kinds, to live together, in the same world at peace.
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If you write songs you have an idea how they're going to sound.
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Sure I think it is healthy to speak the truth, and be who you are, and be proud of that.
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There was a movie I was trying to make right after 'Monster,' a bigger behemoth: the Chuck Yeager story. It was a life dream, but it just didn't line up. We just had issues with the life rights, ultimately.
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.
