Abram Besicovitch Quotes
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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I'm curvy.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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We all know and we all perceive Christian Dior in a very specific way.
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We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.
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Religion is meant to teach us true spiritual human character. It is meant for self-transformation. It is meant to transform anxiety into peace, arrogance into humility, envy into compassion, to awaken the pure soul in man and his love for the Source, which is God.
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If you start believing all that press about you, you're in trouble. I don't even read my reviews.
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If I were to take an undergraduate chemistry exam, I would probably fail.
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I never wanted to be like other blues singers. I might like hearing them play, but I've never wanted to be anyone other than myself. There are a few people that I've wished I could play like, but when I tried, it didn't work.
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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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Women and girls are disproportionately affected by landmines. They have different needs when it comes to education about risks. And they may face greater challenges when a family member is killed or injured.
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People can drink with their eyes; I can eat with my nose.
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A lot of people don't know how to talk on the phone anymore.
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Success is like winning the sweepstakes or getting killed in an automobile crash. It always happens to somebody else.
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Monterey was the Maraschino cherry on top of the Sundae that was the '60s. It was totally unprecedented, and the audience was unprecedented in their joy.
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I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.
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One of the reasons inequality gets so deep in this country is that everyone wants to be rich. That's the American ideal. Poor people don't like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank, they don't like to think of themselves as poor.
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I foresee a Liberal vote so massive and the number of Liberal MPs so great that we shall hold the initiative in the new Parliament.
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I would not do anything to besmirch my reputation any further than it has already been.
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Washington has, with some justification, gained a reputation for being hopelessly mired in partisan gridlock.
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Apparently being a mermaid is dead dull. I watched The Little Mermaid with her once a few years ago—she thought it was freaking hilarious. She couldn’t stop laughing about the shell-bra thing, given that mermaids aren’t mammals. Plus, as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and “peach colored” for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hot, but then again, I am a mammal.
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In God, I move and breathe and have my being.
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A mathematician's reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.
