G. H. Hardy Quotes
[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.
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Kids are always going to be around people who break world records and that. It's how you deal with that. I never let it get in the way of my race, but I am always more than happy after the race to sign autographs and have photos.
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Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
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I love being the mayor. I want to be the mayor forever.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
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There is no point in pointing fingers because there are three fingers pointing back at you.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
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I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'
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I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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I started writing regularly for 'The Atlantic' roughly around the time that Barack Obama got inaugurated.
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I love mistakes because it's the only way you learn.
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Even when I wasn't doing much 'science for the public' stuff, I found that four or five hours of intense work in physics was all my brain could take on a given day.
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I am living proof that the American dream still exists. It is still alive and well. There is only one trick, you have to be willing to roll up your sleeves and work very, very hard.
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When fringe groups gather, there is power in that.
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I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.
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[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.
