Charles Seife Quotes

If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

Charles Seife

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• I always wanted to entertain. When I was little, I would sing in front of the mirror with a hairbrush or my sisters and I would make shows. I always wanted to be on TV.

  

  Lacey Chabert
  • Always
  • Mirror
  • Little

• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Great
  • Money
  • Think

• I think a smart person today realizes that you have to be part of the art films that are done just for the sake of the art.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Done
  • Art
  • Today

• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
  • Day
  • Balance

• Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.

  

  Pat Brown
  • You
  • Smart
  • Figure

• As long as I love Beauty I am young.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Long
  • Love
  • Beauty

• I am what they call a chubby-skinny guy. I appear to be normal and have the look of an in-shape man, but if we were to go to a pool party I would go with my shirt on.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Guy
  • Party
  • Skinny

• I originally got into this because of a five-year-old's begrudgery of his teacher. Mrs. Lawlor cast me as a tree, and I was disgusted. I was sure I had more to offer than that. It was like, 'OK, if you want me to be set dressing, fine, I'll take it on the chin but I'll show you - I'm going to be a big actor some day.'

  

  Jack Reynor
  • Day
  • Teacher
  • Tree

• The first thing many tourists see in Hawaii is concrete - a long dreary stretch of it through landscapes dominated by sad, cheap apartment buildings and almost entirely denuded of plant life.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Life
  • Long
  • Sad

• Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Brave

• I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Know
  • Down
  • Leverage

• I'm very lucky in the sense that I've got a voice that's distinctive. Not good, but distinctive. That's a very useful thing to have in this business. I'm glad on the one hand that I've got it, but I wish it was more powerful. I wish I had a greater range. I wish it was more accurate at times.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Good
  • Business
  • Wish

• The maximum expression of running dogs is the Iditarod. You enter a state of primitive exaltation, and you never return. You're never normal again.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • You
  • Running
  • Expression

• The fact is that seven per cent of the global population emits 50 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions, and the proportions are the same for the use of energy and raw materials, meat, wood, etc. Simply put, an infinitesimal minority consumes the most and imposes damage on the overwhelming majority, while asking it to change.

  

  Yann Arthus-Bertrand
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Wood

• I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.

  

  G-Eazy
  • Up
  • California
  • Berkeley

• I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Life
  • Live
  • My Life

• Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.

  

  Annie Proulx
  • Song
  • Childhood

• Acting is really scary, but it's also challenging, fun, hard work. There's always an element of improvisation with every actor, even when something is really scripted.

  

  Michael Pitt
  • Acting
  • Challenges
  • Scary

• I gave up years ago on the concept that you could actually have balance in your life, I think it's a phantom chase.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • Life
  • Up
  • Think

• I just think people have a lot of fiction. But, you know, I mean, the real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Up
  • Time
  • Government

• I always know I'm going to lose my job. It's either going to be canceled next week or next year or nine years from now, but I always know my job is going to go.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Job
  • Year
  • Week

• If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.

  

  Charles Seife
  • People
  • Believe
  • Stupid