George Polya Quotes
Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
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The strongest institution in the hands of the European Union is the euro.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw.
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Luckily I don't have to buy shoes anymore, because I design them! I'm off tour, so I can dive in and create the shoes that I want for my line. But okay, I did buy a pair of vintage combat boots because they were so beaten up - I had to have them.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I have to arrange my life very carefully. I need eight hours' sleep to work.
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Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
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Directing is the ultimate way to bring together all the art forms I've been involved with over the years.
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I've always enjoyed doing dishes. Maybe it was the fashionable yellow gloves that I loved so much. It's weird, I know, but I find cleaning cathartic.
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I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.
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If you ask a founder how their company is doing, they always say, 'Oh it's great. We're totally crushing it,' and that's almost never true.
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A lot of the main audience thinks video game-based movies are always horror movies but it's totally not true. In video games you have adventure, sci-fi, horror, action and even comedy. I think that people should accept more that video games are kind of like the best-selling books of the new generation.
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In stages, the impossible becomes possible.
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We're all equal before a wave.
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But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.
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We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent.
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No matter how thin you slice it, there will always be two sides.
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One of the main things about Cockney is, you speak at twice the speed as Americans. Americans speak very slow.
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The notion that a story has a message assumes that it can be reduced to a few abstract words, neatly summarized in a school or college examination paper or a brisk critical review.
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The most powerful single idea in mathematics is the notion of a variable.
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It is so important for us to have faith, trust, confidence in one another. It is the only way we can communicate. Without faith there is no communication, there is no love, or if there was a little love it will die without hope, trust, and confidence. Even if it doesn't die right away, it will be so ill, so weak, and so tired that communication will be miserable as well.
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Mathematics is the cheapest science. Unlike physics or chemistry, it does not require any expensive equipment. All one needs for mathematics is a pencil and paper.
