Daniel Tammet Quotes

I have never played the lottery in my life and never will. Voltaire described lotteries as a tax on stupidity. More specifically, I think, on innumeracy.

Daniel Tammet

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 31, 1979

Topics

LifeStupidityThinkMy LifeTax

The overwhelming majority of new mortgages are issued with government backing in a highly concentrated securitization market. That leaves us with both potential taxpayer liability and systemic risk.

Jerome Powell

GovernmentPotentialNewRiskMarket

It used to be so important to choose what you were. Gay or straight. Male or female. I think the new generation is more fluid.

Andreja Pejic

ThinkGenerationYouChooseGayNew

I realized that everything I do is fantasy, whether it is an adult movie or a kids movie.

Robert Rodriguez

FantasyEverythingAdultKidsMovie

Sometimes people think it's what you say when you're in a huge group that makes you a leader. But sometimes it's the one-on-one conversations you have with guys individually, just getting to know them. I think I've done that a lot. Not intentionally - it just happens.

Robert Griffin III

LeaderPeopleThinkYouSometimes

You cannot mean everything to all segments of the markets. You cannot have a brand straddling too many meanings.

Anand Mahindra

BrandYouMeanEverythingCannot

I haven't played Hedda Gabler yet, but maybe if I did I might find the funny bits.

Sophie Thompson

FunnyFindMightDidMaybePlayed

Technology writers are seldom subject to frenzied, Beatlemania-esque paroxysms of public attention. June 29, 2007, was the exception. I was in the wrong place - Apple's Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan - with the right device. The iPhone.

Steven Levy

TechnologyAttentionApplePlace

Racing is a great sport, but we need people to come along and see that for themselves. Maybe they're not used to going racing or haven't been before, but I think people get a taste for it; they do come back.

Tony McCoy

GreatPeopleThinkRacingBackNeed

My mom was funny and nutty. I suppose she had to be to survive raising 10 kids. To cope and keep a cap on things, she kept us buoyant and harmonious. She wouldn't let us express anger, which later on landed me in therapy but also made it easier for me to play laid-back, measured roles.

Tony Shalhoub

FunnyAngerMeMomSurvivePlay

The subject of criminal rehabilitation was debated recently in City Hall. It's an appropriate place for this kind of discussion because the city has always employed so many ex-cons and future cons.

Mike Royko

FutureCityPlaceKindDiscussion

Those minutes that I'm on stage are the best! Being there and looking at the crowd and seeing their faces, hearing them sing the positive words from the songs.

Miley Cyrus

PositiveBestWordsLookingSeeing

The movie I made with my friends in my hometown based on a dream becomes a stepping stone to 'Spider-Man.' I wish I could say this was an amazing, calculated path but... It's so weird.

Jon Watts

PathAmazingWeirdWishHometown

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