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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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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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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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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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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'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.
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Failure has been the great theme of my life, I think.
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We never really write 'love' love songs. There's always something twisted about them. But as far as love songs, women just became way more important to us after we turned 21, as a band in general. Kind of broke up our boyhood solidarity as we started branching out into babes.
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We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports.
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
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Every time I get the chance, I just talk to myself basically in English just to practice my pronunciation.
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When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.
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The idea that you can get everything you want in one person is destructive, and maybe when you accept that the number is closer to 50 or 60 or 70 percent, that's when you can start to make some progress in choosing the right person.
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Anyone who takes no delight in the firm outline of an object, or in its essential character, has no artistic sense. He cannot even be nourished by Art. Like Ephraim, he feeds upon the East wind, which has no boundaries.
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Without mathematics, there’s nothing you can do. Everything around you is mathematics. Everything around you is numbers.