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Hilaire Belloc Quotes

Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: July 27, 1870 - July 16, 1953

Topics

Death Victory Statistics Triumph

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

Confidence Women Think Down Older

Corporate America was hurling offers at her. Thinking even bigger, wanting even more, she had dreams of starting a Martha Stewart magazine and starring in her own regularly scheduled Martha Stewart television show. Martha saw herself as Betty Crocker, Julia Child, Miss Manners, Emily Post, and Rupert Murdoch all rolled into one juicy pie.

Jerry Oppenheimer

Dreams Child Thinking America Pie

I started out in summer stock, and that's really what I prefer.

Summer Out Started Really Prefer

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

Better Done Say Always Out Head

Two people could build an outhouse in four hours. They're not complicated.

People Complicated Build Two People

With nine degrees of warming, computer models project that Australia will look like a disaster movie. Habitats for most vertebrates will vanish. Water supply to the Murray-Darling Basin will fall by half, severely curtailing food production.

Water Food Fall Look Australia Will

When you're making a TV drama, the showrunner is God, and so however onerous and difficult and consuming that responsibility is, you're being treated with respect, so it changes your whole outlook to the production. You're being asked about costumes, set design, music, every aspect of the show.

Music God Respect Responsibility You

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

John W. Gardner

Excellence I Am Reach Doing Kind Am

Being that my parents and I were immigrants to Canada, I didn't have the most lavish life growing up.

Life Parents Growing Up Canada Up

We're all in this together. I learned that lesson growing up in West Philly. When I shoveled the sidewalk my parents didn't let me stop with our house. They told me to keep shoveling all the way to the corner. I had a responsibility to my community.

Community Responsibility Together Me

I want to help the helpless, but I don't want to help the clueless.

Help Want Helpless Clueless

I got hooked to American news like a great TV season. It plays like fiction. I would come home from work, and I would put it on, and I would stay up until 2 in the morning watching it and get up in the morning and watch it.

Work Home Morning Great American Up

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