Carl Friedrich Gauss Quotes
There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
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I'm not saying anything to denigrate 'Criminal Minds'; that's a great show. I just didn't appreciate it anymore. I appreciate those people, but I realized my heart wasn't in and I needed to go because plenty of people would rip their arm off to be on that show, so they should be.
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I'm not a psychiatrist.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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I study what's happening in music. I want to sound different than everybody else.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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Dramatically it's always more interesting to conceal rather than reveal things.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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Fashion is unique. It's a leveler, not a divider.
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
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I don't think the Republicans care much about minorities.
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Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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I do not want to be bored listening to music that is muffled and known only to the poet himself.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great.
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We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. These are exceptional times.
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I went to get a detective story. You have to kill time. But time will kill me too - and there´s the true, preestablished balance.
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Just to be clear, if, like Pat Robertson, you somehow missed all the evidence, all the research, the depth and breadth of all the knowledge garnered about HIV and AIDS over the past three decades, you cannot get HIV if you share towels.
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I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in and invite God and his angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
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If nothing will finally survive of life besides what artists report of it, we have no right to report what we know to be lies.
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There are problems to whose solution I would attach an infinitely greater importance than to those of mathematics, for example touching ethics, or our relation to God, or concerning our destiny and our future; but their solution lies wholly beyond us and completely outside the province of science.
