Carl Pomerance (Carl Brnard Peomerance) Quotes
The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all.
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Beyond being timely, an obituary has a more subjective duty: to assess its subject's impact.
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If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.
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There's always ideas buzzing around, but it's whether they actually end up materialising into a song.
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It was surreal to play opposite Angela Lansbury and Elaine Stritch, Bernadette Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones. There was so much to learn just from watching them, and it was an honor to share the stage with women who have accomplished what they have.
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You have to invest the money in a certain thing, because, you know, at 40, I want to enjoy my life. So I do a lot of investments. Apartments back in Russia and New York. It's a good thing to do.
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Some players are quite homely, and they don't see themselves going abroad; others would relish the challenge. I can only speak personally, but I always wanted the challenge, and to go and live in a place like Barcelona was great.
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The rules of survival never change, whether you're in a desert or in an arena.
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It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.
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You choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.
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I think that I’m a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I’ll tell you right now that I’m gonna think I’m a better political director than my political director.
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The fundamental problem is not that there are limits on voicing different opinions here. The problem is that the whole society is dying through lack of responsibility or involvement.
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The contrasts and contradictions that can permanently live peacefully side by side in a skull make all the systems of political optimists and pessimists illusory.
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I will never be satisfied, like the Olympics.
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Anyone can do anything because everything is the result of someone.
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Well, I think on second units it's all about execution. Because you come in there, you don't have to worry so much about the studio and all the other actors and all that.
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There's a real fantasy quotient to my work. Any play that I've written for myself to perform in basically begins with the idea, "Wouldn't it be fun to be, say, Jean Harlow in a pre-code movie?"
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The largest known prime number is 2^32582657-1. I am proud to say that I memorized all its digits-in binary.
