Edmund Landau Quotes

Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.

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• I went through a training camp; I worked extremely hard. I prepared for UFC 200. This was the big one. This one meant everything to me.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Me
  • Training
  • Hard

• If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.

  

  Camilla Lackberg
  • Thinking
  • Body
  • New York

• You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

  

  Larry David
  • Funny
  • Know
  • Kid

• I read nonfiction almost exclusively – both for research and also for pleasure. When I read fiction, it's almost always in the thriller genre, and it needs to rivet me in the opening few chapters.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Pleasure
  • Nonfiction
  • Exclusively

• It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Effort
  • Teacher

• Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Smile
  • Anxiety
  • Anger

• Dictatorships do cut down on rape, and pillage, not to mention sexual harassment, by the simple expedient of sending people to labour camps for life or cutting off their hands without a trial.

  

  Barbara Amiel
  • People
  • Life
  • Simple

• Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Men
  • Character
  • Power

• Our high school offered a comprehensive drama department where I was doing 'Angels in America' at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • School
  • America
  • High

• There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.

  

  Andre Breton

• My father died when I was 9 years old. The miserable condition of my family at that time is beyond description. My family, solitary and without influence, became at once the target of much insult and abuse.

  

  Chiang Kai-shek
  • Time
  • Family
  • Father

• The phrase 'off with the crack of the bat', while romantic, is really meaningless, since the outfielder should be in motion long before he hears the sound of the ball meeting the bat.

  

  Joe DiMaggio
  • Long
  • Romantic

• As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.

  

  Laurene Powell Jobs
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Bad

• To passively get up and play a bunch of old songs wouldn't have really motivated us. So we are bringing the new material into the set and it goes down really well.

  

  Andy Taylor Duran Duran
  • Up
  • Motivated

• The little bit of buzz around 'Warrior' led to a lot of opportunities anyway, before the movie even came out.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Movie
  • Warrior

• A country without borders is not a country.

  

  Carlos Beruff
  • Country

• Obama prefers to look forward, not back, as he has stated. So at least during his tenure, there will be no reliable record compiled as a cautionary tale for lawmakers and presidents in future times of crisis. This is the historical Obama.

  

  David K. Shipler
  • Future

• Sarcasm is weird. Even not in acting, in life I feel like 'sarcastic' is a word that people use to describe me sometimes so when I meet someone, it's almost like they feel like they have to also be sarcastic, but it can sometimes just come off as mean if it's not used in the right way.

  

  Aubrey Plaza
  • People
  • Life
  • Weird

• If we are going to get a grip on escalating costs, we have to focus more on prevention rather than acute care. Technology can help us do that.

  

  Frans van Houten
  • Help
  • Technology
  • Focus

• Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.

  

  James Costos
  • Important
  • History

• If you really want something, it's nerve-racking, but at the same time, I try not to stress myself out about it too much because there are also so many arbitrary things that go into being cast for something - you know, like the color of your eyes, all these things that are kind of out of my control.

  

  Laura Harrier
  • Time
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I don't care how handsome or fabulous or funny the groom is, or how sweet and accommodating the bride, or vice versa. Marriage is hard.

  

  Jenna McCarthy
  • Funny
  • Marriage
  • Sweet

• My best friend Rosemarie and I had a very involved secret life when we were in elementary school. After we saw 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' on TV, we invented a whole secret life in which we were twins from the planet Venus, and we were in charge of the entire solar system as well as Earth.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Life
  • School
  • Earth

• Please forget everything that you have learned in school; for you haven't learned it.

  

  Edmund Landau
  • School
  • Forget
  • Learned