Elliott Sober Quotes
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved thinking, but science seemed to be all about memorizing facts and doing mindless calculations.Elliott Sober
Quotes to Explore
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I'm constantly intimidated by Shakespeare's work. Trying to decipher what he's saying and holding on to that thought - not just as an actor, but as a human being - is a rigour.
Zoe Wanamaker -
A man is as alive as he can communicate.
L. Ron Hubbard -
How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.
Ovid -
When an actress is younger, she likes to lower her age, but when she is older, she likes to add to her years.
Katharine Cornell -
I love wushu a lot and I would love to see it included in future Olympic Games.
Jackie Chan -
When I hear people debate the ROI of social media? It makes me remember why so many business fail. Most businesses are not playing the marathon. They're playing the sprint. They're not worried about lifetime value and retention. They're worried about short-term goals.
Gary Vaynerchuk
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
Rafael Correa -
It's a false proposition that we have to take the arts away to fund something else.
Damian Woetzel -
Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelfThan that I may not disappoint myself,That in my action I may soar as highAs I can now discern with this clear eye.
Henry David Thoreau -
'Wicked' has such a wild fan base - like, a voracious fan base.
Jennifer Nettles Sugarland -
I don't believe in proving myself, ever. I'm in the school of thought where if someone is a curious person, they can find whatever they want.
Emily Ratajkowski -
I'm always crunching numbers, so my calculator watch is a must.
David Neeleman
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The urge to miniaturize electronics did not exist before the space program. I mean our grandparents had radios that was furniture in the living room. Nobody at the time was saying, 'Gee, I want to carry that in my pocket.' Which is a non-thought.
Neil deGrasse Tyson -
My grandmother did all the cooking at Christmas. We ate fattened chicken. We would feed it even more so it would be big and fat.
Alain Ducasse -
Growing up in Hitchin was comfortable and easy enough. My parents had some great records - and some not-so-great ones - and that's where I got introduced to Motown and the Stones and Springsteen.
James Bay -
I hesitated before buying a Kindle. I wasn't worried that the digital reader would ruin literature as we know it. Rather, my concern centered on using an electronic device in the bathtub.
Jen Lancaster -
Arizona is a national leader in school choice with both charter schools and tuition tax credits giving parents and their children more school choices than ever before.
Jane D. Hull -
The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.
David Plouffe
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You can do the same thing with $20 million that you would do with $50 million. So at a certain point in your life and in your career, you realise that it's not about the money.
Kevin Hart -
You got to be brave. If you feel something, you've really got to risk it.
Mel Brooks -
The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.
Tom Stoppard -
I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
Aziz Ansari -
When I was in high school I found literature and history interesting, but science not at all. Literature and history obviously involved thinking, but science seemed to be all about memorizing facts and doing mindless calculations.
Elliott Sober