Edmund Landau Quotes
I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
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When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.
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I taught English and history, so my education for that really helped prepare me for writing historical fiction.
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Few words in any language carry such a load of meaning as 'honor.' It is an old word, unchanged even in its spelling from classical Latin to modern English. Spoken or written, it does not seem to require much explanation; most people think they know what it means.
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The State of Israel must be at the forefront of global science - in physics, in mathematics, in medicine, in biology.
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Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
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I came to the U.S. in 1994 to learn English and go to business school, but I took only a few business courses at the State University of New York at Albany and didn't finish.
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I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.
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In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.
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You can't believe everything you read. I am only six foot three, by the way.
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My uncle is so funny - Don Vito. He was always fat with the craziest voice. Dude, he barely speaks English; it's just full-blown jibber-jabber. It's so funny to watch on TV because you really need subtitles because you can't understand him.
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The longer mathematics lives the more abstract - and therefore, possibly also the more practical - it becomes.
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Don't classify me, read me.
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
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My mom speaks English - she moved to England in the '70s, so she's fluent in English. We use to speak in Spanish when I was a kid all the time, me and my mom. But when I went to boarding school, I kind of lost it a little bit.
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If I could read it, I could play it.
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of English It's your language. I'm just trying to use it.
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It is now my opinion that in all Indian curricula of higher education there should be a place for Hindi, Sanskrit, Persian, Arabic and English, besides of course the vernacular.
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When I speak English, I've been told, I have this patrician way of speaking that's very irritating. It's the whole class thing.
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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How many people, when you watched the LA riots on the news, were like me, watching the people getting hauled out of their cars and beaten half to death? How many people were like me seeing this and thinking 'Step on the fucking gas, man. They're on foot, you're in a truck … I think I see a way outta this.'
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It's nice to dig deeper into people who may look one way but always have a story to tell. I obviously write about that a lot.
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We need to do a better job of loving each other beyond race, beyond belief, beyond our difference.
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I learned how to get in shape without getting certain muscles too big that make you look like a meathead.
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I will ask of you only the ability to read English and to think logically—no high school mathematics, and certainly no higher mathematics.
