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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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'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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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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Vera Caspary wrote thrillers - but not like any other author of her time, male or female. Her specialty was a specific type that she pioneered - the psycho thriller.
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You can learn from anyone even your enemy.
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As a child, you respond physically, tactically. You're delighted by sound, you're delighted by recognizing something. It's like hide and seek. Is it there? Is it not there? Is it this note? Is it not this note? It's one fantastic game.
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I spent the first 25 years of my life not knowing what I wanted to do.
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Beauty pageants work as a platform from where you can reach out to many.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I turned Compaq from a small company with troubles into a computer powerhouse. We can do the same at Intershop.
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I think that building any product that has a lot of user loyalty is a bit like making a sequel to a great movie or video game - people generally want 'more of the same thing, except better and different.'
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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.
