Rene Descartes Quotes
Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
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I'm not on Twitter, and I don't read the papers day to day, so I am somewhat protected. There's this weird separation between your private and public persona.
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We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.
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A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.
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I love figure skating and what I am able to express creatively. I want to leave a legacy in the sport.
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It will be a difficult couple of days. It's difficult now and it will be difficult tomorrow.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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I could walk into anyone's home one time and draw a three-dimensional architectural plan of the inside of their home from memory, but I could not add up a column of numbers.
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'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.
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If we want to preserve Heathrow's hub status, we need to stop clogging it up with point-to-point flights to places such as Cyprus and Greece, which between them account for 87 weekly flights, and contribute nothing to overall connectivity.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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I come from a council estate in Tower Hamlets, and by no means am I the only person who has done well - one of my friends is head of year in a great school in Twickenham. Another is a writer; another is an artist, a musician.
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A kind heart is a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.
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All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.
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Investing in people is the single most important thing in the knowledge economy. Traditionally, wealth was defined by land and natural resources. Today the most important resources is between our ears.
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And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
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They claim to be the first inventors of those recondite beverages, cocktail, stonefence, and sherry cobbler.
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There is only one Whedon, and I am his prophet.
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You can be a sophisticated person and still have really old ideas about what love is supposed to look like.
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And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.
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Dancing is something I do. Not something I just want to do. It's something I just do, depending on how I'm feeling. I don't see myself taking that as just a job.
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It doesn't matter if a critic pans or praises my movies, I am only concerned about that one audience member and what their experience is.
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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
