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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But also, the guest workers program, it's quite often misused, meaning people could come in as part of a guest workers program and after two weeks in the fields, they'd run off to do every other kind of job that isn't covered by a guest workers program.
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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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Of thousands of others, nearer the centre of the explosion, there was no trace. They vanished. The theory in Hiroshima is that the atomic heat was so great that they burned instantly to ashes - except that there were no ashes.
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The larger point is this: We've invested over half a billion dollars in New York since this department was stood up. We've given New York more money, by more than double, than any other city in the country.
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We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict.
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Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.
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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.”
