Carl Benjamin Boyer Quotes
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
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I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
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There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they're going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There's a message there.
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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You never know what movie I will be in next, but let's just hope it's sells (for my sake at least)!
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All I held against Jews was that so many Jews actually were hypocrites in their claim to be friends of the American black man.
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Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence!
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When I was a little girl, I thought when I had an opportunity to go into space, I thought I would at a minimum be working on Mars or another large planet because we were doing all of these incredible things.
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When you have to get into the character each morning, give it your voice, your face, it was torture.
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It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
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What Einstein was able to do was - to use a cliche - think out of the box.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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If you got what it takes, you'll make it. If you don't, Shakespeare couldn't help you.
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Whoever sincerely believes that elevated and distant goals are as little use to man as a cow, that 'all of our problems' come from such goals, is left to eat, drink, sleep, or, when he gets sick of that, to run up to a chest and smash his forehead on its corner.
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When we're recording, I always dress up.
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I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.
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Yeah, I don't deal with current events or pop culture, and I avoid politics like the plague.
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I just wanted to make movies, but I never though about, "How am I being perceived because of my culture or my skin?"
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Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure.
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
