Marcus du Sautoy Quotes
The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
Marcus du Sautoy
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
Daniel Burnham
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
Zac Brown Band
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
Lao Tzu
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There was a time I desperately needed for the world to know that I was no category guy. My whole goal in life was to reach that certain success where people will say, 'Hey, that guy can do anything. He's the Evel Knievel of music. He's jumping over 15 buses!'
R. Kelly
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
Umberto Eco
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My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid.
Lydia Millet
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I gotta do what I think is right, and if enough people like it, I'm a winner. And if they don't, I'll open a bookstore.
Warren Spector
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There is a tendency to feature more actresses on covers, but I'm a big model lover. I grew up watching these models, and they gave me the wish, the need, to work in the fashion industry. I loved watching them - their beauty, the way they worked in front of the camera and that power of transformation, especially in the Seventies.
Francois Nars
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No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
John Jay
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Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing.
Barney Frank
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The power of mathematics is often to change one thing into another, to change geometry into language.
Marcus du Sautoy