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Shakuntala Devi Quotes

The concept of zero is attributed to the Hindus. The Hindus were also the first to use zero in the way it is used today.

Shakuntala Devi

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: indian
Birth: November 4, 1929 - April 21, 2013

Topics

Today Way First Used Zero Concept

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Slavery Black White North South

Was it proof of madness in the first corps of sea officers to have, at so critical a period, launched out on the ocean with only two armed merchant ships, two armed brigantines, and one armed sloop, to make war against such a power as Great Britain?

John Paul Jones

Sea Power Great Ocean War Madness

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

Live Childhood Poverty Country Rural

I basically started performing for my mother, going, 'Love me!' What drives you to perform is the need for that primal connection. When I was little, my mother was funny with me, and I started to be charming and funny for her, and I learned that by being entertaining, you make a connection with another person.

Funny Love Mother Me Love Me You

I think I'm becoming more relaxed in front of a camera. I suppose I'll always feel slightly more at home on stage. It's more of an actor's medium. You are your own editor, nobody else is choosing what is being seen of you.

Home Think Feel Camera You Nobody

I was really across-the-board, like a nutcase. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life, so I just did everything. I was even part of FHA, Future Homemakers of America. How lost was I?

Life Future My Life America Lost

I just coach and get my guys ready.

Ready Coach Get Just Guys

For me, fragrances are very - one of these beautiful art forms that bring about a whole host of things. It's what you want to smell like, it's memories that make you smile or are resonant of times in your life, it can remind you of music. If you're a lover of scent, it's a very kind of particular and evocative thing.

Life Smile Music Memories Beautiful

I scroll through Instagram and Twitter, and whenever I see something that speaks to me, I take a screenshot to save it for red carpet inspiration. Sometimes, if I see an outfit I like on the street, I'll take a picture, too. References are so important.

Red Me Picture Outfit Sometimes See

You can't even kill yourself if it isn't your time to go. People have no control whatsoever over what happens to them, and they are beginning to realize this. The future lies in the time of living. Your doing something will get you into tomorrow, if you want to call it tomorrow. If you want to make those distinctions at all.

Future Time Beginning Yourself Doing

There are so many women on the floor of Congress, it looks like a mall.

Women Looks Congress Floor Mall

Hamas, we know, embeds missiles, embeds command-and-control units in civilian areas.

Hillary Clinton

Know Missiles Civilian Units Hamas

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