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I'm a mathematician, basically. What I do is look around for problems where I can find useful applications for mathematics. All I… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
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Writers get to know me very well. It always serves me in the end because I feel I have a deeper understanding… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
And to me, I had come out of Texas, and during that time was when I realized that a lot of people… — Lee Ann Womack Copy Share Image
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The pain that's created by avoiding hard work is actually much worse than any pain created from the actual work itself. Because… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
No one really knows the value of book tours. Whether or not they're good ideas, or if they improve book sales. I… — Rosecrans Baldwin Copy Share Image
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Aaron is a very passionate, maniacal writer so the scripts really come from him, but he is very open to... y'know, we'll… — Bradley Whitford Copy Share Image
The profound unity of subjective existence and objective environment leads naturally to the idea that the life-force of one human being can… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
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There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
I like to say that Bobby Fischer was the greatest player ever. But what made Fischer a genius was his ability to… — Bruce Pandolfini Copy Share Image
I like being married to another writer. You get to trade ideas. You get to talk shop. You get to complain. You… — Elaine Equi Copy Share Image
If you were a man, you'd go into business for yourself. I know a fellow who started out last year with just… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
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Quantum physics - the idea that there is more than one reality going on at the same time in the same place.… — Lawrence Weiner Copy Share Image
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What I'm looking for in my career, you know? You're looking for those lightning bolts of inspiration where someone says something that… — Drew Goddard Copy Share Image
The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
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The idea that people can behave naturally, without resorting to an artificial code tacitly agreed upon by their society, is as silly… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
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Few enjoyments are given from the open and liberal hand of nature; but by art, labor and industry we can extract them… — David Hume Copy Share Image
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I'm a brand type guy and we want to make sure that 'Gas Monkey' is out there in every arena that we… — Richard Rawlings Copy Share Image
Express everything you like. No word can hurt you. None. No idea can hurt you. Not being able to express an idea… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
All propaganda must be confined to a few bare necessities and then must be expressed in a few stereotyped formulas . .… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
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