Steven Strogatz Quotes
To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.Steven Strogatz
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
N. R. Narayana Murthy -
This is the beauty of fiction. We may not like these characters, but we inhabit them.
T. C. Boyle -
Enforcement is the long overdue step to protect our Nation from external threats in a time of war. And then once we do that, we can effectively discuss a guest worker program.
J. D. Hayworth -
You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
Zig Ziglar -
Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
Ed O'Neill -
I couldn't find anyone doing something about the astounding injustices women were experiencing, so I decided to do something myself. I cannot tell you how many people ridiculed my efforts.
Zainab Salbi
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This is a world in which reasons are made up because reality is too painful.
Barry Diller -
Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.
Van Morrison -
In Argentina, we're surrounded by polo ponies. The farm covers roughly 170 hectares, and there are no cattle or sheep, just horses.
Facundo Pieres -
Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
Young Jeezy -
I continue with the illusion of serving Colombia. Only God knows if it were to be from the presidency.
Ingrid Betancourt -
It doesn't seem expected for us to do something like that, but I love electronic music. I spend a lot of my time listening to that and just trying to understand what makes it work - what makes it move people the way it does and why they have some of the best-selling festivals in the world.
Zac Brown Band
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I really like stuff that is collectible that you can hold and go, 'There's only a few people that have this.' I like to see that someone's put a lot of labor into making something.
Adam Jones -
After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.
Barbara Deming -
I come from a mixed family, where my mother is art house cinema and my father is B-movie genre cinema. They're estranged, and I've been trying to bring them together for all of my career to one degree or another.
Quentin Tarantino -
True devotion is for itself: not to desire heaven nor to fear hell.
Rabia Basri -
It may look like things have gotten better, because everyone is semi-being appreciative. Not appreciative, but conscious of people being gender fluid and all those things.
Rashard Bradshaw -
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
Caitlyn Jenner
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I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino.
Larry Bishop -
When words fail, wars begin. When wars finally end, we settle our disputes with words.
Wilfred Funk -
I recorded songs with a great deal of meaning, songs of lasting material. That's the legacy I want to leave behind - a legacy of love.
Engelbert Humperdinck -
To grasp how different a million is from a billion, think about it like this: A million seconds is a little under two weeks; a billion seconds is about thirty-two years.
Steven Strogatz