Charles Seife Quotes
This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it.
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
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The first step... shall be to lose the way.
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For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.
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There are lots of ways to make money in venture capital, and there are even more ways to be mediocre. The industry has too much money and too many smart people chasing too few great entrepreneurs.
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I have never known stage-fright at any time.
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You don't want people thinking you're a cheat just because you're really fast and have broken the world record by a second.
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Rather than waiting to restore fiscal responsibility after we pass legislation, we must work to ensure we remain committed to it as we draft legislation.
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The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical.
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I dedicated my 20s, my passion and energy to the name 'Rain.' I always did my best, and I thought if I did, it would eventually show, and even if it didn't turn out well, I wouldn't have any regrets.
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I feel crazy that me sticking with my dreams actually worked. It's wild and incredible.
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I am confident. My style of play is to control a game. You have to be smart in your brain and fast.
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I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
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When you try to find funding for a VVA function, it doesn't seem like it's any trouble at all. People come out of the woodwork with their money to help out because we went over and fought a war.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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I just feel like growing up in Los Angeles, you learn, 'Well you're never gonna be the prettiest girl in the room, so just don't even try.' I mean, I care about being pretty, but it's not my most valued thing.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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Even if you wanted to be a hermit, people come out looking for you. I don't want to cloister myself away, but it is important for me to write about issues that have universal significance. One of them that have resonated with me all my life has been the theme of injustice.
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Our current pricing is in the middle range of the league and that's where we like to be.
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense of the everyday habits and beliefs of a people, which beds power down, makes it appear natural and inevitable, turns it into spontaneous reflex and response.
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This is the definition of the infinite: it is something that can stay the same size even when you subtract from it.
