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Simon Newcomb Quotes

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: canadian
Birth: March 12, 1835 - July 11, 1909

Topics

Father Men Rational Most Dad

As far as vanity and wrinkles and things like that, that's a part of life I don't worry about. I put on creams, you know, but don't go mad, and I don't have any kind of treatments. I just live a healthy lifestyle. And staying happy, not getting negative and angry, I think that helps, looking at the positive of everything.

Life Positive Live Angry Happy

I've been really lucky when it comes to casting kids, and I don't particularly like child actors. Too often, they just show up, and they've had whatever real innocence that's in a child just beaten out of them. They start to perform for you, and you can just see it coming. It's no good.

Good Child Start Innocence You See

We need schools like Doon and Mayo for the poor.

Poor Need Like Mayo Schools

I like thinking of myself as invisible. I find it a very advantageous way to live. Unfortunately, its not the way the music business works. If you don't create some kind of public image, it gets created for you.

Live Business Music Myself Thinking

I loved comedy all my life. I think it's a real powerful art form.

Life Art Think Loved My Life Comedy

I was used to being successful in school, but academics didn't make me happy.

School Happy Me Successful Academics

The thing I ran up against was everybody wanted a song so fast. It took me two years to finish 'Touch Me in the Morning.'

Morning Me Song Fast Touch Finish

Are deviations from full employment a social problem? Obviously.

Problem Employment Social Full

The history of blackness is also a history of erasure.

History Blackness The History Of Also

I think I'm attracted to subjects that I'm afraid of. It's a way to approach things I am afraid of, things that bring fear in my heart, and try to understand them, try to deal with them. It's like demons. I try to approach it and understand it... I'm just visiting fears.

Denis Villeneuve

Fear Heart I Am Think Demons Way

The tragic thing about the Internet is that you can find out way too much, way too quickly.

Christopher McCulloch

Internet You Find Too Much Way Out

I'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s.

Good Father Mother Early Lucky She

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