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Terence Tao Quotes

When I was seven or eight, whenever I was getting too rowdy at night, my parents would give me a maths workbook to work on to quieten me down.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: mathematician
Nationality: australian
Birth: July 17, 1975

Topics

Work Parents Me Night Down Give Me

I have a lot of tea in the morning. I always have toast and peanut butter.

Morning Tea Always Peanut Butter Lot

Combat stress isn't the only problem for soldiers isolated in Iraq - there are family issues, re-integration issues when soldiers go home on leave, loneliness.

Family Home Loneliness Stress Go

We are visual creatures. Visual things stay put, whereas sounds fade.

Fade Things Stay Visual Sounds Put

It's hard to run a mile when you're not a miler and to kick when you've led all the way.

Steve Prefontaine

You Run Way Hard Kick Led

Acting is sort of an extension of childhood. You get to play all of these roles and have so much fun. Playing an athlete would be so cool. Or where you get to shoot guns, ride horses. I wouldn't turn down any of that.

Ride Childhood Fun Cool You Acting

Limited points of view let the writer dispense - and the reader gather - information from various corners of the story. It all becomes a kind of dance, with the writer guiding the reader through the various twists and turns. The challenge is keeping readers in step, while still managing to surprise.

Jonathan Evison

Challenge Dance Step Story Surprise

Since cable got the power and freedom it has, you can explore someone in a way you couldn't in the old days when Mannix was Mannix was Mannix. I thought maybe that Nixon would be an interesting series.

Douglas McGrath

Freedom Power Thought Interesting

If you can put your hands on the receiver and get to him fast, that messes up everything for them. If I don't put hands on him, he's probably going to beat me on the route.

Chris Harris, Jr.

Me Hands You Fast Everything Beat

I find fault with my children because I like them and I want them to go places - uprightness and strength and courage and civil respect and anything that affects the probabilities of failure on the part of those that are closest to me, that concerns me - I find fault.

Strength Failure Courage Children Me

My career has been going better than expected, and I'm grateful.

Grateful Better Career Going Been

As big as my ego may be, I'm really not of the belief that I can't be replaced. I didn't invent the wheel. There's someone else out there who can do what I do, maybe a little differently. I believe that Kiss is bigger than its individual members.

Kiss Ego Believe Someone Wheel Out

I understand what justice is, and I understand what freedom is, and all of my friends do. It's always been that way. I love freedom of speech. I love freedom of religion. I want my neighbor to be totally fine, for him to be a completely flaming gay guy with his new husband.

Love Freedom Justice Religion Speech

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