Sofia Kovalevskaya Quotes
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
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I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to be found with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
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My parents played the radio, but music was never an obsession or something that I thought I could call a career.
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I think we are living in paradise with regards to the ways we can amuse ourselves, communicate. We have such a richness of possibilities.
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Glamorized... am I glamorous?
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My mom is super fabulous, and I remember her telling me at 13, 'You can start wearing makeup now.' And the funny thing is, I didn't take her up on it!
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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You're miserable, edgy and tired. You're in the perfect mood for journalism.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
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Being an athlete helps me get those grandiose emotions of pleasure and pain that are involved in sports.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
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I'm pretty lucky to work on both 'CSI: NY' and 'Supernatural.' Not bad gigs!
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Eat and sleep and exercise. Above all else!
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Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.
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The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life.
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'Piss on etiquette,' Threpe said petulantly. 'Etiquette is a set of rules people use so they can be rude to each other in public.'
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You make me understand how wonderful it is for little lizards when they find that one special rock that's perfect for sunning themselves on. You make me lizard-happy.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
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There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.
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Only World War II, which mobilized 10 million draftees, could by any stretch of the imagination be called a people's war.
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Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
