Atle Selberg Quotes

A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

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• I would kiss you, had I the courage.

  

  Edouard Manet
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• I try to write in a way that makes people feel things.

  

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  • People
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• Language evolves and moves on. It is an organic thing. It is not stuck in an ivory tower, hung with expensive works of art.

  

  E. L. James
  • Art
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• Larry Geller’s Leaves of Elvis’ Garden is by far the best book I have ever read about Elvis. It is emotional, revealing and spiritual, and offers the most amazing insight into the king. I highly recommend this dynamic book.

  

  Uri Geller
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• Quantitatively, outsourcing abroad simply cannot account for much of the recent weakness in the U.S. labor market and does not appear likely to be an .important restraint to further recovery in employment.

  

  Ben Bernanke
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• It was odd to have something so personal out there in that way, but the good thing about art is that no one necessarily knows what you mean by it anyway.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
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• I can't figure women out. They put on makeup for three hours. They wear things that make them smaller. Things that make them bigger. Then they meet a man and they want truth.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Women
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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Matter
  • Stars
  • Seems

• Good friend for Jesus sake forbeare, To digg the dust encloased heare! Blest be the man that spares thes stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Moving
  • Jesus
  • Friendship

• For years, I kept the two separate: Michael Horse the artist and Michael Horse the actor. I like the acting, but I'm an artist; that's my identity.

  

  Michael Horse
  • Artist
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• The proof that the little prince existed is that he was charming, that he laughed, and that he was looking for a sheep. If anybody wants a sheep, that is a proof that he exists.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Exists
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• I remember a time when I would hear a band and then want to hear everything that sounded like it; I wanted it to feel like I was tapping into a thing, even if it wasn't.

  

  Alan Palomo
  • Want
  • Band
  • Hear

• If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Up
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• A felicitous but unproved conjecture may be of much more consequence for mathematics than the proof of many a respectable theorem.

  

  Atle Selberg
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