Cathy O'Neil (Catherine "Cathy" Helen O'Neil) Quotes
We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.
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North Korea is not an undeveloped country; it is a country that has fallen out of the developed world.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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I was a happy person before marriage. I'm definitely happier after marriage.
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Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing along while I performed in Pune.
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I don't believe in asking God for anything. If I am worthy, He will give it to me. I think we should earn his blessings; I have never believed in mannats.
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Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.
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One of my friends went on a murder weekend... now he is doing life for it.
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Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.
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The U.K. crowds always have a lot of energy, and I've done some milestone shows there that I'm very proud of.
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My mother was working on her college degree throughout my childhood, and being the youngest in the family, that meant being dragged to a lot of her classes. She majored in playwriting, so I was exposed to theatre from a very young age, and it was just the most magical world to me.
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When a decision is made to go to war based on intelligence, it is a fateful decision. It has ramifications and impacts way beyond the current months and years.
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When I am sad and wearyWhen I think all hope has goneWhen I walk along High HolbornI think of you with nothing on
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There are things I want to get done, and If I can reconnect where I was before, working on the issues I'm interested in, that's exciting to me.
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When I first thought about leaving the traditional route of a 9-to-5 career to pursue full-time YouTube, it was terrifying - not many people were doing it. The thought was I have to have money saved up, because this very likely might fail. From the start, I had to give it my all for it to work.
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Everybody knows my life. I won a lot of tournaments and scored more than 1,000 goals, won three World Cups but I could not play in Olympic Games.
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I am so organized that it's dysfunctional. Everything has a place. I am a very visual person, so my environment is important to me. If my environment is messy, I can't think clearly. I don't like clutter. A clean desk is a clean mind for me.
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I went further and further back through the centuries to get a sense of perspective but now at least I understand why Irish history evokes such strong passions and emotions.
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For centuries, economic thinkers, from Adam Smith to John Maynard Keynes, have tried to identify the elusive formula that makes some countries more prosperous and successful than others. My curiosity about this topic spurred me, as a young professor of economics in the late 1970s, to research new ways of measuring national competitiveness.
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One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder.
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Math is my favorite subject. It's the universal language. I like the fact that wherever you go in the whole world, two plus two will still be four.
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Somehow it's O.K. for people to chuckle about not being good at math. Yet if I said, 'I never learned to read,' they'd say I was an illiterate dolt.
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If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
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I had 45 Avril Lavigne posters. Those were my first posters.
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We can't just throw something out there and assume it works just because it has math in it.