Alfred North Whitehead Quotes

Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.

Alfred North Whitehead

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: mathematician
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 15, 1861 - December 30, 1947

Topics

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I love acting on television and look forward to more roles, for sure. And I also love and need to perform live shows.

Michael Carbonaro

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Sting and I have six kids between us. A lot of members of our family have ADHD and dyslexia.

Trudie Styler

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I would be happy to be a footnote in my dad's bio. I don't care about trying to be famous or prove that I didn't need him. Even if they say I'm riding his coattails, I'm confident enough in my own music that I don't worry about that.

Shooter Jennings

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I think I can take responsibility for that in that I was the audience. I was the voice of sanity around whom all these crazies did their dance. And I reacted in the same way that a member of the audience would have reacted.

Mary Tyler Moore

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There is a power in public opinion in this country - and I thank God for it: for it is the most honest and best of all powers - which will not tolerate an incompetent or unworthy man to hold in his weak or wicked hands the lives and fortunes of his fellow-citizens.

Martin Van Buren

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I've always followed my enthusiasm. Whether the pictures have turned out good or not is one thing - but I've always had a lot of enthusiasm for the project at hand.

Jonathan Demme

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I'm never nervous.

Bono

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The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.

Bob Edwards

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When I was in high school I was a really huge 'SNL' fan. I remember the cast around the time I started watching it - Will Ferrell, Ana Gasteyer, Molly Shannon, Cheri O'Teri, Tracy Morgan. I did research to find out how people got on the show. Their bios always said they came from an improv team, so I started taking classes.

Aubrey Plaza

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For me personally, I was just worried that transitioning from a podcast, which is a very intimate sort of experience - people tell me they listen to my podcast while they're at the gym or on road trips, so you're in someone's ear - to being on television - that's a lot of space to fill.

Phoebe Robinson

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I try to keep my private life kind of private.

Tyra Banks

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It was traumatic for my children to see the British army en masse coming into our home and searching the house. I recall on one occasion, when our home was raided, my youngest son was standing at the top of the stairs - he would probably have been only three years of age - in his pyjamas. The soldiers came up the stairs, and he peed himself.

Martin McGuinness

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