Adolphe Quetelet Quotes
Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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When I first decided to launch a clothing line, I was pregnant with my daughter Spencer-Margaret, so I looked for a retailer with values that mirrored my own growing family concerns. Kmart is a family store where value-conscious moms shop, so my partnership with Kmart seemed like a natural fit.
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I don't want to subject myself just to one scheme. I think it's just if you can play, you can play no matter what scheme you play in.
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My biggest fear has always been being 40 and hating my job. I love challenges. I'm not afraid to try anything.
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It's interesting for me because in my work, a lot of times, I like to scrutinize the clothes and think what's going to make them look dated, and I do the same with vintage. In vintage, you want something unique and different, but at the same time, something that doesn't make you look like you dress like a grandpa.
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Grief is bizarre territory because there's no predicting how long it'll take to get over certain things. You just don't know how long it's going to resound in your life.
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Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you.
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The gospel music and doo-wop is what has informed me personally.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.
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Admiration takes on a whole new level when you appreciate just how complex it is to run a modern business.
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If you look at the opening of 'Private Ryan,' you are so in the point of view of those guys and there is a whole world swirling all around them. You are learning that geography as they are learning it.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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Let no guilty man escape, if it can be avoided. No personal considerations should stand in the way of performing a public duty.
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won.
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I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know.
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I don't think I've ever worn anything other than black jeans and shirts. Quite simple, really, and quite casual.
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It is disappointing and embarrassing to the science profession that some Nobel Laureates would deliberately use their well deserved scientific reputations and hold themselves out as experts in other fields.
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The ronin were those masterless men who roamed around, and yet they found themselves getting involved in circumstances they hadn't expected.
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Whether statistics be an art or a science... or a scientific art, we concern ourselves little. It is the basis of social and political dynamics, and affords the only secure ground on which the truth or falsehood of the theories and hypotheses of that complicated science can be brought to the test.
