Edward Frenkel Quotes
The fact that such objective and enduring knowledge exists and moreover, belongs to all of us is nothing short of a miracle. It suggests that mathematical concepts exist in a world separate from the physical and mental worlds.
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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Nashville, I think, for me, personally, would be where I want to live and work. L.A. is a whole other world and has a whole other vibe to it, so I would like to come out here for work for a couple of months, but L.A. is just not really my scene, per se.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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I don't think that technology is going to allow for greater subjugation of people. I think it's gonna give them more freedom.
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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Faith is never identical with piety.
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If the Rolling Stones are playing a concert across town, that's not my audience anyways. But I do find that there's a lot of people coming back around to see me again.
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I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
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I learned long ago that the most effective way to compete is to play your own game, and I've been competing with men my whole life.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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People in misery is what most important in art.
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I didn't know you were Catholic. (to Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson as he got down on one knee to beg Pelosi to find Democratic support for the bailout bill)-2008
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You can get control of your tasks and activities only to the degree that you stop doing some things and start spending more time on the few activities that can really make a difference in your life.
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I'm very happy for the Contreras family. They're out. Now they've got a chance to experience life the way I did as a kid. You know, his kids are going to have a real chance in life now, and the same way that I had it.
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I think if you're going to be in a relationship with someone, you need to be able to share the responsibility, the knowledge, the worry. It's not like it was when our parents or their parents were having lives where the mom just baked bread, and the husband worried about it, and the wife didn't know there was any problem.
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Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?
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The fact that such objective and enduring knowledge exists and moreover, belongs to all of us is nothing short of a miracle. It suggests that mathematical concepts exist in a world separate from the physical and mental worlds.
