Numbers Quotes
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The year 1999, seventh month, from the sky will come a great King of Terror: to bring back to life the great King of the Mongols, before and after Mars to reign by good luck.
Nostradamus
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I don't know if it sounds arrogant or whatever, but I'm just trying to get better numbers than last year.
Bobby Abreu
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If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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If I can get a story about a player, I would give you a ship load of numbers, batting averages and all just for that one precious story. That's the kind of thing that I love to do.
Vin Scully
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We need storytelling. Otherwise life just goes on and on, like the number Pi.
Ang Lee
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An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.
Kalle Lasn
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
Iris Chang
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Serious numbers will speak to us always.
Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
Magic Johnson
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I don't have hard numbers about this, but the impression I get is that the amount of eyeballs you get from being on the humor shelf at Barnes & Noble - it is almost insignificant.
Randall Munroe
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The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
Carl Friedrich Gauss
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'My dear friend, that must be a delusion, what can a circle have to do with the number of people alive at a given time?'
W. W. Rouse Ball
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3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?
William of Occam
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I will calmly wait for my induction to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Don't I have the numbers to be inducted?
Sammy Sosa
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What did you do to Amma?" "I was late to school." He studied my face. I studied his. "Number 2?" I nodded. "Sharp?" "Started out sharp and then she sharpened it.
Kami Garcia
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
Hanna Rosin
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It was sad leaving the BBC; not quite like being divorced, but you don't leave after a period stretching from 1960 to 1999 without feeling a certain number of pangs.
Richie Benaud
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I'm a businessman, and what I know is numbers and business.
Magic Johnson
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I had a number of different labels. A lot of people assumed I was gay because I was wearing a man's suit, and one had to learn that it's OK, people will do that, and you don't always have to explain it one hundred percent, because they're never going to accept what your own interpretation is. It's all illusory.
Annie Lennox Eurythmics
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On the blockchain, you have a public ledger, which is the form of ownership. That means you are not doing net settlement - just netting everything down, which means that everything has been turned into fungible numbers.
Patrick M. Byrne
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...Then it said on the news, "And tonight the Prime Minister has just got to Number Ten." I looked down at Jas and said, "Ooer." Meaning he'd got to number ten on the snogging scale. And then we both laughed like loons. Vati just looked at us like we were mad.
Louise Rennison
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Obviously Iran is a very large problem. It's hard to decide what the number one issue [is], but that is a very threatening problem.
Madeleine Albright
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We got the competitors we said we'd get. We got our numbers. We had about 450 competitors and 1,500 spectators. Next year it will be even better. Every year it's going to get bigger.
Larry Burns
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
Barry Ritholtz