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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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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As a unique person, I was bullied badly as a teen.
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Talent will only take you so far, and it is your ability to feel the music and explore a movement that will bring you the greatest pleasure in dance.
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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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Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind.
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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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The trouble with us is that the ghetto of the Middle Ages and the children of the twentieth century have to live under one roof.
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True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.
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I believe in being with someone for ever. Even though my marriage to Chris didn't work, I still don't consider it a failed marriage - it just came to its natural end. It didn't make me feel like I never wanted to get married again. I like sharing things with somebody.
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When a translation is very good, it is fascinating to see how the book changes and yet stays the same. I think 'Out Stealing Horses' sounds more American for Americans than it does in Norway, and still, it is all there, everything that I wrote. It's amazing.
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The night I announced I was getting married, Daddy paced for hours on the porch.
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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.
