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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I'm the kind of person who would rather get my hopes up really high and watch them get dashed to pieces than wisely keep my expectations at bay and hope they are exceeded. This quality has made me a needy and theatrical friend, but has given me a spectacularly dramatic emotional life.
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The science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value.
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The most complex object in mathematics, the Mandelbrot Set ... is so complex as to be uncontrollable by mankind and describable as 'chaos'.
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Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.
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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.
