Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes
I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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I don't eat red meat.
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I prefer to believe it's my responsibility if a film of mine works or doesn't work.
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I'm a private intellectual, not a public one.
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Nothing can have value without being an object of utility.
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I like writing for teenagers because they're not snobs.
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When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called 'extreme' shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I'm terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.
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Going to film school just made me love it. Before film school, I didn't really think much of acting. I was more into making music, but going to school and learning about it every day, it made me grow profound respect for the art.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
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Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.
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I know some children's writers write for specific children, or for the children they once were, but I never have. I just thought children might like my sort of visual humour.
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American Society for Psychical Research Journals were all around the house when I was a kid.
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I will prepare and some day my chance will come.
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'Man,' said Terl, 'is an endangered species.'
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The riches of the soul are stored up in its memory. this is the test of character, not whether a man follows the daily fashion, but whether the past is alive in his present.
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...To the mother hubbard girl, whose name seemed to be Janie: ‘It becomes you, it does really, that chunk of filthy butter muslin, but then you’re the sort of girl who could get away with anything, even having one tit bigger than the other.’ He did a comic oenophil act with the bottle of Marsovin...
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T'ank you veddy much.
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The purely corporeal can be uncanny. Compare the way angels and devils are portrayed. So-called 'miracles' must be connected with this. A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture.
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Looking for the perfect day is not going to make us happy, because that day isn't going to come.
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A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man.
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Hitting is not an exact science.
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A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not... I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
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I confess that Fermat's Theorem as an isolated proposition has very little interest for me, because I could easily lay down a multitude of such propositions, which one could neither prove nor dispose of.
