Abraham de Moivre Quotes
The Probability of an Event is greater or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
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I haven't been brought down because people are focused on who I'm dating, what I'm eating, or what handbag is the best handbag - that's so cheap to me. But if others want to open up about their personal lives, that is their choice. It's not for me to judge.
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I put so much of myself out there and make myself so accessible that sometimes I fear I make myself too accessible.
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I'm not just a normal guy. I'm a gymnast.
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Abraham Lincoln is singular. Abraham Lincoln, before he was killed, stood up and, you know, for the first time from any sitting president, stood for the right for suffrage for African-American men who had served in the Civil War. And that's a limited suffrage, but it was quite radical at the time.
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When I was a child, I wanted to raise horses in Wyoming or be a cabin boy on a pirate ship.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.
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Well, I feel that everybody in the country knows me. I think people know who I am, and that I'm deputy leader of the Labour party, and that I'm out there talking about their big choice for the future.
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I find L.A. kind of romantic, actually. As a movie junkie, it's a city that was built by the movies. There's something really weird and surreal about it that I find energizing.
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I don't even like old cars. I'd rather have a goddam horse. A horse is at least human, for God's sake.
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Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place. Eliminate a great many species, and the local ecosystem starts to decay.
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Only the highway of useful service leads to the city of happiness.
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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
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If I couldn't laugh, I'd rather die.
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I'd rather miss one or two games than to come back and pop it and miss four or five.
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When people ask me that, I say I don't want to be remembered. It means I'm no longer around.
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I never want to be called the funniest Indian female comedian that exists. I feel like I can go head-to-head with the best white, male comedy writers that are out there. Why would I want to self-categorize myself into a smaller group than I’m able to compete in?
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Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.
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The Probability of an Event is greater or less, according to the number of chances by which it may happen, compared with the whole number of chances by which it may either happen or fail.
