Carl Benjamin Boyer Quotes
Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
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To me, eyewear goes way beyond being a prescription. It's like makeup. It's the most incredible accessory. The shape of a frame or the color of lenses can change your whole appearance.
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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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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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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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All the criticism and all of the praise, it doesn't - it's not worth the salt that goes on my bread, because TV is fickle. You can be loved one day and hated the next day. One day, you're getting an award. And the next day, you're getting a death threat.
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You always love to fantasize you'll get your dream role.
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Marie Curie is my hero. Few people have accomplished something so rare - changing science. And as hard as that is, she had to do it against the tide of the culture at the time - the prejudice against her as a foreigner, because she was born in Poland and worked in France. And the prejudice against her as a woman.
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A culture that does not aspire to the divine becomes obsessed with the fascination of evil, reveling in the frivolous, the depraved, and the bestial.
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Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs.
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Mathematics is as much an aspect of culture as it is a collection of algorithms.
