G. H. Hardy Quotes
In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.
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In the age of the internet when everybody's a pundit, we're still gonna need somebody there to go talk to the colonels, to be on the ground in Baghdad and stuff and that's very expensive.
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So, you know, parenting is a very intimate and amazing experience and one of the best experiences of my life.
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My mother had a premonition and she felt that hairdressing would be very very good for me.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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I believe honor thy mother and father is not just a good commandment to live by, it is good public policy to govern by. That is why I feel so strongly about Medicare.
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Say what you want about long dresses, but they cover a multitude of shins.
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We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.
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I am proud to be a member of the Congress of the United States.
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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
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It does not take a majority to prevail... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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I'm not the girl next door.
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I suppose that the Western has always been a kind of mold to which you could pour the concerns of the day, but have them seen in the simple terms of the Western, of one alley or whatever.
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For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.
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Society becomes how we behave.
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I am haunted by what my life would have been had I not had the courage in my early twenties to leave Pittsburgh for New York City and really commit to being a writer. Pittsburgh is both post-industrial and provincial, and the opportunities there are limited. It would have been quite easy to simply drift through life.
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In [great mathematics] there is a very high degree of unexpectedness, combined with inevitability and economy.
