Steven Strogatz Quotes
In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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I don't really want to repeat myself. For the most part, I always want to be doing something new. But there aren't a lot of gritty roles out there for women, and they are so fun to play, everyone wants them.
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So you're quite right that when... as the Cold War grew and expanded out of Europe, we ourselves had to take refuge behind the shield of the Monroe Doctrine.
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I'm a simple man, and I use simple materials.
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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
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It's soul force that removed the English from India. It's soul force that brought down the Berlin Wall. It's soul force that gave life to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s struggle for civil rights.
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Fear of women love more than hate the man.
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When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them.
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Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss.
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I've produced more pilots than United Airlines, and they've all been disasters. Every audition I ever took in my life I lost.
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A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.
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People with ADD often have a special “feel” for life, a way of seeing right into the heart of matters, while others have to reason their way along methodically.
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Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.
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Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.
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Human learning presupposes a specific social nature and a process by which children grow into the intellectual life of those around them.
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In mathematics, our freedom lies in the questions we ask — and in how we pursue them — but not in the answers awaiting us.
