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“Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.”
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“I just believe that whatever you put into your system you're going to see on your face and your body.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“Lady Gaga is one of the most amazingly talented musicians to bring her gifts to humanity in a long time.”
Source : "What I've Learned: Representative Jared Polis (D, Colo.)" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 29, 2010.
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“The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.”
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“I still don't even know if the sheriff will let me see him. And suppose he did; what then? What do I say to him? Do I know what a man is? Do I know how a man is supposed to die? I'm still trying to find out how a man should live. Am I supposed to tell someone how to die who has never lived?”
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“It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!”
Source : Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. March 1, 2010.
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“The sky aft was dark as pitch, but the moon still shone brightly ahead of us and lit up the blackness. Beneath its sheen a huge white-topped breaker, twenty feet high or more, was rushing on to us. It was on the break-the moon shone on its crest and tipped its foam with light. On it rushed beneath the inky sky, driven by the awful squall behind it.”
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“Mathematicians need proofs to keep them honest. All technical areas of human activity need reality checks. It is not enough to believe that something works, that it is a good way to proceed, or even that it is true. We need to know why it's true. Otherwise, we won't know anything at all.”
Source : Ian Stewart (2007). “Letters to a Young Mathematician”, p.79, Basic Books