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 -
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 -
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 -
As long as I love Beauty I am young.
W. H. Davies -
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 -
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
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Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.
E. O. Wilson -
I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.
Dan Quinn -
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 -
I try to live my life, do what I want, and just let everything else follow along.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
Annie Proulx
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This was the most important discovery I had ever made in my life. It was a discovery which has irrevocably changed my whole life's direction. It immediately elevated me to the status of one of the world's leading anthropologists.
Donald Johanson -
I'm happily married.
Javier Bardem -
As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -
I never do things fearing I could do right or wrong. I just do it because I just follow my guts. This is really how I did it for 'Elektra' because I was just amazed by all the comics. I was good for me to get inspired by them, and I just follow my guts for the rest.
Elodie Yung -
If I wanna be president, I probably can.
Jesse Ventura -
Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
Arthur L. Herman
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My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.'
Dana Fox -
When I was a kid, I had to try a lot of pyrotechnics just so people would know who I was.
Johnny Mathis -
Microsoft isn't stupid.
Jesse Schell -
The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.
Andrea Barrett -
People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.
John Betjeman -
If you want to get people to believe something really, really stupid, just stick a number on it.
Charles Seife