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Steven Strogatz Quotes

When you create something new, you're breaking tradition - which is an act of defiance.

Steven Strogatz

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: american
Birth: August 13, 1959

Topics

Tradition You Create New Act Which

Take '39 Steps'. When I finished writing it, I counted the number of measures in the composition. I always do this because I am interested in the length of a song. So I counted this one a couple of times because 39 is an unusual number of measures for a song.

John Abercrombie

I Am Writing Song Always Steps Take

I was everything, patriarch, priest, father and judge.

Father Judge Everything Priest

There's this weird thing about acting where you have to wait for somebody to ask you to do it; like you have to wait for a director to say it's okay.

Wait Weird You Acting Say Okay

I'm not in the slightest wanting to attack the women's movement here. But I think that in popular, broadly left-wing, broadly feminist discourse, there is a tendency to just label discrimination against women - and embedded assumptions about them - as misogyny and think 'job done.'

Women Job Think Discrimination Done

No feature of the Obama presidency has been sadder than its constant efforts to divide us, to curry favor with some Americans by castigating others.

Others Presidency Us Divide Been

Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.

Walk Lie Stand You Down Run

I struggled with working with producers because no one openly wanted to give me a chance to rap on their beats. That's just honest talk. No one really wanted to take that risk.

Me Chance Risk Talk Honest Rap

It's easier for me to go to Russia and train with top coaches and choreographers there than go to Colorado Springs and train with 14 of my competitors.

Me Train Go Colorado Top Russia

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

DeForest Soaries

People Blind Voting Easy Possible

There is, in fact, nothing easy about being an entrepreneur.

Easy Entrepreneur Nothing Being Fact

When my sister and I came along, my father's political life was completely over. He ran for president the year I was born. So that was the end of it. He had been congressman first, then governor, before all that. So when we came along, he was running the Dayton newspaper.

Anne Cox Chambers

Life Father Sister End Political

In the twelve months immediately preceding the outbreak; of war, the quantity of spirits, both domestic and imported released for sale in Canada, amounted to over three and a half million proof gallons.

William Lyon Mackenzie King

War Canada Three Over Quantity Half

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