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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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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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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Too often, our most vulnerable students - English-language learners, immigrants, poor kids, teenage parents, students with behavioral problems and learning disabilities - fall through the cracks.
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I love the English spirit because when I was a player, I was an Englishman: I was fighting, and you had to kill me if you wanted to win.
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I speak a number of languages, but none are more beautiful to me than English.
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I went to a basic school, which had children from all corners of the world, and met my best friend and had to learn Greek because she didn't speak English.
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The English language is more complex than calculus because numbers don't have nuances.
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I wanted to make a redemptive thriller that didn't end with some kind of big, crazy shootout and blood spill, but more of a collision of ideas and a discussion of ethics.
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I don't have a craving for money. And I don't have a craving for fame.
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I have the same pet peeve as Anderson Cooper, which is bare feet in public. I hate it. It so grosses me out, especially in New York. Oh my God, New York in the summer with people and their feet in their sandals and their flip-flops, like get it away!
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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.
