Shakuntala Devi Quotes
If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
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Today in Ukraine, many people struggle to survive, older ones often see the breakdown of the Soviet system as a loss of stability and security for average people, and therefore a certain hostility to quickly acquired wealth is from their point of view quite understandable at the first look.
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We've got a strong group of Republicans who are conservatives who know that their jobs aren't finished when they finish their speech.
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It's not comfortable for me to write about my family. I'm not comfortable writing about me.
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Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.
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I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of you with the other bits; otherwise, you get a terribly random situation.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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Sweden will always be my home, since my childhood there was like a fairytale, so I'll always go back to it.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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I am writing a book more improbable than 'The Interrogative Mood' that I call 'Manifesto'. It's two guys talking who speak artificially conveniently.
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Are kids smarter than adults? All evidence points to that being true.
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I used to spend a lot of time alone as a kid, creating characters and doing voices in my room, and I thought to myself, I'm either going to go absolutely nuts, or I'm going to find something to put that energy into.
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You may laugh of the idea of the good will of others in Hollywood, but it's no laughing matter if you don't have it.
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Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.
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I come up with a lot of ideas, and I want to start them all.
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I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.
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I think that theater is a unique way to communicate with people as they gather together with other people they may not even know. It creates a sense of shared community for the time of the performance that hopefully carries over into other aspects of the audience's life because they have shared this experience together.
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I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap.
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In 2009, I fractured my skull in a freak accident at an L.A. restaurant. I suffered a seizure and was rushed into hospital. I was so out of it that I refused to let them scan my brain. My dad rushed to my bedside and talked me into having the CAT scan - he told me that I might die if I didn't go through with it.
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Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.
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The world is a big place and our brain is only three pounds.
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If you do not use a muscle or any part of the body, it tends to become atrophic. So is the case with the brain. The more you use it, the better it becomes.
