Archimedes Quotes

Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

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• I hate a man who always says 'yes' to me. When I say 'no' I like a man who also says 'no.'

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
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• He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Good
  • Trying
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• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
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  • Road
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• Come hell or high water, adopted or my own. I am going to have, I must have some kids.

  

  Ida Lupino
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• We believed that to understand literature, you had to understand its place in history and culture.

  

  M. H. Abrams
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• We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
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• Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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  • Life
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• The tax incentives in place for 'House of Cards' in Maryland have resulted in hundreds and hundreds of jobs and not just for actors, but for carpenters and waitresses and hotel workers. The amount of hotel nights and meals that the production of a television series brings to a state is staggering.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • House
  • Television
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• It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Own
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• As a human being, anger is a part of our mind. Irritation also part of our mind. But you can do - anger come, go. Never keep in your sort of - your inner world, then create a lot of suspicion, a lot of distrust, a lot of negative things, more worry.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
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  • Worry

• When I go to clubs, I don't have to wait outside.

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Go
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• I admired the work ethic of the cowboys I read about. The idea of these young people taking on this much responsibility was impressive. I would like modern readers to have an appreciation of this.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
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• Make health care a right, not a privilege.

  

  Ed Pastor
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• I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.

  

  Paloma Elsesser
  • People
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• You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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• I remain your servant and I will do as you ask of me.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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  • Ask
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• Ever since I was a kid, whatever situation I was presented with, I always made the most of it.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Always
  • Situation
  • Made

• I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Kids
  • Game
  • Way

• At last, Roberta had found an authority figure she could please without hating herself.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Found
  • Authority
  • Please

• Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • American
  • Culture
  • Rock

• I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

  

  Emily Mortimer
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Why

• I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way.

  

  John Zorn
  • Work

• There's a lot of downtime where you're filling your car up with gas, you're driving to work, you're stuck in traffic - it's Los Angeles, and so much of it is a car lifestyle.

  

  Marc Guggenheim
  • Up
  • Work
  • Car

• Two magnitudes whether commensurable or incommensurable, balance at distances reciprocally proportional to the magnitudes.

  

  Archimedes
  • Balance