Andrew Wiles Quotes
It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
Quotes to Explore
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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What I'm trying to do is save and rescue the country if I can, and I'm doing my best to do it.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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I like to create the music I hear in my interior. As a conductor, you have the ability to squeeze the sounds and interpretation you asked for from 50 to 80 people.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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I don't try to just be a blues singer – I try to be an entertainer. That has kept me going.
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I can't say I'm having trouble with my husband or that I have a stubborn child.
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My sculptures cause an uproar, astonishment, and put a smile on your face.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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At every Christmas, I fail to remember the daughters' shoe sizes, and they are not growing, but grown. After ostensible hard thought about who needs what, I have failed to give good gifts; I have failed to receive good gifts.
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My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn't get it, so I hate the lottery.
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We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.
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I can't wait to design the performance. I want to make a moment that is about much more than me. Performing in space is such an honor. I want to challenge myself to come up with something that will not only bring everyone together but will also have a message of love that blasts into the beyond.
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Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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Time made me change. I gradually woke up to the realization that this is who I am, an author, a public figure, and I couldn't just hide in my study, tapping away at the keyboard and pretend that I didn't have a role to play beyond stringing words together.
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It's fine to work on any problem, so long as it generates interesting mathematics along the way - even if you don't solve it at the end of the day.
