Whitfield Diffie Quotes

I was, from early on, interested in science. And my parents were very obliging about that. My father used to take me to the museum of natural history, and I knew much more scientific stuff early on. From the time I was 11 or 12, I wanted to be a mathematician.

Whitfield Diffie

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FatherScienceHistoryTimeParents

I love doing movies but I loved doing theatre just as much.

Joe Morton

LoveTheatreLovedDoingMovies

Miss Marple believes in justice and has very high standards. There is nothing you could say or do that would shock her.

Joan Hickson

JusticeYouSayNothingHighHer

I don't think that books are wondrous, magical things that come from nowhere. It's important that a book has clues about where and how it was written.

Alvaro Enrigue

BookThinkImportantMagicalNowhere

I fall to pieces when I am hurt, but when it comes to my children, I am a pillar of strength, applying balm and bandages and dressing up their wounds.

Sridevi

StrengthChildrenI AmHurtFallUp

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Stanislaw Lem

BusinessWhoThosePreferCannibals

History shows us that the songs - the myth, the experience and the emotion - live longer the less you explain.

Sondre Lerche

LiveHistoryExperienceYouEmotion

I personally don't like school, but you have to do it if you want to get through life, so pretty much I put up with it.

RJ Mitte

LifeSchoolYouWantUpPretty

I'll bet you a six-pack of Coors that pretty soon, people will be discovering Cretaceous parasites inside Cretaceous bones. The possibility of looking into epidemiology and pathology is pretty cool.

Robert T. Bakker

PeopleCoolLookingYouWillInside

Six years after I wrote the first draft of 'Plan B,' I received my first paycheck as a writer. It included both the $3,000 in deferred option money as well as half the fee for performing the initial rewrite. The amount was scale according to the Writer's Guild guidelines, but a lot, according to me.

Lisa Lutz

MoneyMePlanFirstYearsPaycheck

I think the idea of the social construction of beauty - this idea that beauty is simply whatever culture or society says it is - is on the run. Of course, beauty does arise in a cultural context. No one ever denies that. But there's also a natural response people have to it.

Denis Dutton

BeautyCulturePeopleConstruction

A new product, technology, or innovation - such as Bitcoin - has the potential to give rise both to frauds and high-risk investment opportunities. Potential investors can be easily enticed with the promise of high returns in a new investment space and also may be less skeptical when assessing something novel, new, and cutting-edge.

Perianne Boring

TechnologyInnovationSpacePotential

The press doesn't just cover presidential campaigns, they influence them by making arbitrary decisions about who is 'top tier' and merits coverage.

Mark McKinnon

InfluenceDecisionsTopPressJust

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