Archimedes Quotes
Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
Quotes to Explore
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Though many people said there is no joint border between Turkey and Montenegro, it feels like we are next to each other. We are in the same neighborhood.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.
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You really don't get paid in these independent movies, no matter how many people see them.
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I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
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When I'm writing something, I try not to get analytical about it as I'm doing it, as I'm writing it.
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If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don't care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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Well, I was born in El Paso, Texas, it was in the nearest hospital to the family farm.
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I listen to music to when I'm feeling a certain way or to make myself feel a certain way. So why not make my own music inspired by true emotions?
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.
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I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.
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Man, 'Hill Street Blues' was on when I was 12, and I remember feeling I'd never seen anything like it. It was that far ahead of its time, with dark characters you loved. I remember Ed Marinaro, the football star.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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I was young and so eager to make some money as well as get exposed and show my talent.
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I like 'Glee' a lot. It's kind of like my guilty pleasure.
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I'm looking for all types of sounds. Anything that has soul and funk in it, no matter the genre.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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As actors, we're all encouraged to feel that each job is the last job. They plant some little electrode in your head at an early stage and you think, 'Be grateful, be grateful, be grateful.'
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Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.
