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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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 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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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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Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
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In 2009, the 'New York Times' ran an analysis on the cost of being a LGBT couple trying to live as a married couple but without the same protections. Over a lifetime, they estimated a couple would spend as much as $467,562 more, and as little as $41,196, with costs running lower the higher your income.
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As Attorney General of Alabama, I have never hesitated to stand up to the EPA before when it was wrong.
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Love the giver more than the gift.
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I like the full spectrum of roles.
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I think art is beautiful. It's decoration and adornment. But art is also a really important vessel for social change, and social change begins with thought. And so if you can find humor in something and take a moment to rethink it, you can take a step back and look at your values from a different angle. I think that's a really important way of carrying on with life. I think the best art for me is funny and the best comedy for me is art. Some of my favorite artists are comedians. Comedy is art, and art can be comedy, and the intersection is vital - at least for my own work.
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By mid-morning, I take a break from my novel and work on my Sunday Style column, which is about pop culture and what I find on the web. I usually start writing it at the beginning of the week and give it a couple of days to marinate before I return to it.
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Kids used to tease me and call me 'fille des etoiles,' which translates to 'daughter of the stars.'
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You can either invade a country or leave them alone and trade with them. When goods cross borders, armies don't.
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
