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I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.
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Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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It's still going on. I guess it will be until Redmond quits, dies or is jailed.
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Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.
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Topshop is the only brand I've ever collaborated with on a fashion collection.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I'm a person that doesn't have that many goals or plans. I feel like I'm the wind and I blow through life; it's whatever comes to me. I very much respect nature. Whatever happens to me, I'm happy and I embrace it.
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It's interesting having a son. Someone told me that it's good when you have a son first because when you have a daughter first and then a son, you think your son's slow. A lot of parents freak out because they've seen a daughter progress so quickly, and they think their male child is, like, damaged. But boys are just naturally slow.
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We do have pictures on the wall, in our office in Belfast where we spend half our time. All the head shots are on the wall. So yeah, we just throw darts at the ones we don't want anymore.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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My voice and the styles and genres I sing all express my appreciation for what I hear.
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We are working essentially to build a leadership force of folks who will, during their first two years of teaching, actually put their kids on a different trajectory - not just survive as a new teacher, but actually help close the achievement gap for their kids.
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The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible enough to give none.
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Americans believe that people should work hard and get ahead on their own, but when disaster strikes and they need help with retirement or disability, Americans as a whole should come to their aid.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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I have this 'Alice in Wonderland' idea in my head that a garden should be a place of wonderment.
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I have a great love for nature. That must have started somewhere down back home, I think, because my family own one of the better known gardens in Soochow, so I played there, and I lived there, and so I must have absorbed something there. So I continue to have a great interest in nature.
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I have always been a sucker for the big, upbeat chorus.
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We're always skating to wherever the puck is going.
