Gary Wolf Quotes

Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.

Gary Wolf

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Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction of being a therapist. And without the education, or a different kind of education, I think my first choice would be a landscape architect. I love to garden.

Jill McCorkle

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I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Jill Scott

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I'd like to keep our kids in their schools. I'd like to keep our young men and women in jobs.

Andrew Forrest

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I go to universities to talk to the students and teach them how to watch movies. Movies have so many elements - acting, music, art direction, costumes. I also tell them not to watch pirated movies. At the cinema, they can enjoy the big screen and the surround sound.

Andrew Lau

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Everybody's a filmmaker today.

John Milius

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There are two types of claims: those based on hard numbers and those based on slippery numbers.

Simon Sinek

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I have had quite a lot of prizes, but I don't think it makes any difference to the ease or difficulty to the writing process.

Ruth Rendell

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There is an enormous amount of evidence that Saddam has weapons of mass destruction, is doing his best to develop more lethal weapons, and funds and supports terrorism.

Mike Pence

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Justin Bieber stole my haircut. And Axl Rose stole my dance!

Davy Jones

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Somebody's going to have to come up with a definition of what the alt-right is.

Corey Stewart

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I've always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.

Claire Danes

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Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Anthony Bourdain

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