Steven Strogatz Quotes
When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
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R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.
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One of my biggest drawbacks is my inability to maintain my physique. I put on weight for 'Soodhu Kavvum' and never managed to shed it. Luckily, that look suited a few films, including 'Orange Mittai.'
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Many years ago... many, many years ago, I brought up a boy, and I said to him, 'Son, if you ever become a writer, try to write a good part for your old man sometime.' Well, by cracky, that's what he did!
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It's kinda all about image.
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I consider myself West African, among other cultural identities, and a writer, among other creative ones.
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I'd always heard stories about how Harpo Marx was the most talkative of the Marx brothers. I found it interesting that someone you never got to hear speak in films would never not speak in real life.
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I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.
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I don't just want to be someone who hits the ball 100 per cent every time. You can play with freedom and still mix up the pace, mix up the spins and everything like that. That's what I want to be doing, because you get into that very one-dimensional kind of tennis if you don't work on slicing and coming into the net.
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I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.
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I don't think I'm ugly, but I never thought I was that special.
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What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time. His perception is not limited to what is biologically or socially useful.
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'That’s another thing about emperors-and regents,' Gareth said. 'They aren’t very fond of changes, even if the changes are for the better.'
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It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.
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Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia.
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I was a student at SF State, and I honestly didn't know where I was headed. I thought maybe something in the social sciences. But I happened to be living with a group of people, and one person was a film student. I was always keen on and aware of what she was doing.
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There's something unique about the United States, a sense of individual rights and freedoms, and a sense of social and civic responsibility that we contributed to so much of the world. We lost that mission in the 1980s and 1990s, when we entered a gilded age, and the culture of individualism became a culture of avarice.
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When you love a problem, its contours, obstacles and resistances are all just part of its character.
