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• A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.

  

  G. H. Hardy
  • Ideas
  • More
  • Patterns

• There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.

  

  E. B. White
  • People
  • Start
  • Agreement

• At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • College
  • Language
  • Poet

• I don't see myself as ever being like anybody else.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Myself
  • Like
  • See

• Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Look
  • Civilization
  • Pool

• My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.

  

  Hakeem Olajuwon
  • Space
  • Basketball
  • Create

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I have lived by one crucial principle since I was 24 years old. I don't blame or complain about things like the economy, the government, taxes, employees, gas prices, or any of the external things that I don't have control over. The only thing I have control over is my response to these things.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • Control
  • Government
  • Blame

• If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Amazing
  • Like

• I don't ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • People
  • Great
  • Live

• I get a lot of influence from pro wrestling. People are like, 'Oh, it's fake.' But it's not about whether the guy wins or loses, it's about how he entertains you the whole time you're watching.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Time
  • Guy

• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Time
  • City
  • Space

• Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • People
  • You
  • Comedy

• We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.

  

  T-Pain
  • Learn
  • Surroundings
  • Adjust

• The civil rights fight was a very important fight.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Important
  • Fight
  • Rights

• The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Dog
  • Win
  • Fight

• It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Generation

• When I'm doing work online or on the computer, it's one thing. When I want to read, I want to go elsewhere, and I want to be away from the screen.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Work

• I don't like travelling. Which is ridiculous. And it's not because I'm afraid of dying on the plane or anything. I just like to stay at home.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Home
  • Dying
  • Afraid

• I've always been a little crazy.

  

  Charlie Trotter
  • Crazy

• As a teenager, I had been growing away from the beliefs of the church, but one of the main things that caused me to question Christian Science was that the year that I left home to go to college, a boy who I knew in my Sunday School, whose name was Michael Schram, who was 12 years old, died at home of a ruptured appendix.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • School
  • Home
  • Science

• I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Friend
  • Claim
  • Lifelong

• Christ, people. Learn C, instead of just stringing random characters together until it compiles (with warnings).

  

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