Edward Frenkel Quotes
It’s rare, he says, that we “encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment,” but “sensible, educated people” often say “with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride” that math is “pure torture” or a “nightmare” that “turns them off.”
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I just didn't make music that you could sing with a big grin, still don't.
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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.
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Harold Lloyd was not a comedian. But he was the finest actor to play a comedian that I ever saw.
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My comedy isn't about being attractive - it's about how the bar of dumb seems so low right now, and I desperately want to raise the bar of dumb just a tiny bit.
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I am not a puppet. I was not made by the West to go to the West or to any other country.
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Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.
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When I was in high school, in my generation, I thought that you got a logical, sensible job, or you got married.
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I have lots of best friends, but my brother is the main one.
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During the day, I don't wear much makeup; I only put on makeup for the show.
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Up until about a hundred years ago, the world was dark at night. You got to have a real night so you could sleep.
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I can't do the whole run but I am able to start the race and I will be there at the end when winners cross the line.
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I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.
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Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.
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Chose to ignore or distort the clear evidence.
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"Entertainers Of Faith," funnyman Jim Gaffigan isn't ashamed of his Catholicism. He's seen here leaving a New York comedy club with his Bible in hand.
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If a man can have only one kind of sense, let him have common sense. If he has that and uncommon sense too, he is not far from genius.
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Can you believe that? A female linesman. Women don't know the offside rule.
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That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
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I get to a certain point, and I think in a novel it's about the third draft, when I want other eyes on it.
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My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited.
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It’s rare, he says, that we “encounter a person who asserts vehemently that the mere thought of reading a novel, or looking at a picture, or seeing a movie causes him insufferable torment,” but “sensible, educated people” often say “with a remarkable blend of defiance and pride” that math is “pure torture” or a “nightmare” that “turns them off.”
