Fame is fleeting. My numbers mean more to me than my name.
Vera Rubin
MeNameNumbersFameMoreMean
Nevertheless, the number of farmers, small as well as large, who are adopting the new seeds and new technology is increasing very rapidly, and the increase in numbers during the past three years has been phenomenal.
Norman Borlaug
TechnologyPastSeedsSmallNumbers
With sports, there's no entitlement on the field. It's about numbers. It's about results. It's about outcomes.
Maynard Webb
SportsResultsNumbersEntitlement
The great concern is that year after year, rising numbers of journalists are being killed in pursuit of their work. They are increasingly seen as not being neutral but rather as combatants by one side or the other.
Salman Rushdie
WorkGreatYearNumbersRisingSide
Most women I've ever met either already have or at some point want kids, but there are still significant numbers who don't, or at least don't right now. But those variations are beside the point - the real point is that among all those women, having or wanting kids or not, I never met a single one who didn't want the choice.
Richard K. Morgan
WomenChoiceNumbersNowWantNever
Only by studying large numbers of people can we figure out, are astronauts dying at a higher rate of cancer, and what types of cancers, than other people?
John M. Grunsfeld
PeopleNumbersStudyingDyingOut
Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the number of violent extremist groups has grown across multiple continents. From Syria to Somalia to Pakistan, the United States is combating many of these groups - usually with bombs and missiles. Large numbers of innocent people are invariably caught in the middle.
Patrick Leahy
PeopleInnocentNumbersMiddleSyria
Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Martin Lewis Perl
NumbersYearsAdultOwningBooks
Numbers don't lie. Women lie, men lie, but numbers don't lie.
Max Holloway
WomenMenLieNumbers
I don't worry about numbers. I worry about wins. You can see all the years that my numbers went down and how many championships I've got. That's what I worry about.
Pablo Sandoval
WorryYouDownNumbersYearsSee
Promoters do bigger numbers when Ken Shamrock's name is on the card.
Ken Shamrock
NameNumbersBiggerCardKen
I just want to encourage you all... to rethink the resettlement of refugees in this country, especially in the numbers I'm hearing.
Jeff Duncan
YouCountryNumbersWantRefugees
The streets buy records, but they don't really buy records in incredible numbers.
Mannie Fresh
NumbersBuyStreetsIncredible
I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.
Kevin Harvick
SchoolSwimmingYearNumbersSummer
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
John von Neumann
ScienceRandomNumbersSinLiving
I think my numbers speak for themselves.
Jack Youngblood
SpeakThinkNumbersI Think
I want to see the numbers that prove that show-business marriages are any less successful than other marriages. It's just very public when they fail.
Kevin Bacon
NumbersWantProveSeeFailJust
Conservative talkers love to throw numbers around: their ratings and their audience size. And to be sure, they have a sizable audience which numbers in the tens of millions. But having people tune in and being able to dictate their actions are two different things.
John Ridley
LovePeopleNumbersConservativeTwo
I want to prove to my fans that I am beyond candy floss roles and item numbers.
Amruta Khanvilkar
I AmNumbersWantProveCandyFans
Hidden biases in both the collection and analysis stages present considerable risks and are as important to the big-data equation as the numbers themselves.
Kate Crawford
RisksPresentNumbersImportant
We vote - if the public votes 50 percent, we vote 70 percent. So we have a bigger impact with our numbers, and the organization and the manpower we can bring to a race.
James P. Hoffa
OrganizationImpactNumbersVoteOur
Heartless though it may seem to some, among the least harmful things to eat are sustainably culled wild animals. In the absence of natural predators, deer populations in parts of Britain have reached such dense numbers that the woodlands they browse fail to regenerate.
Tristram Stuart
NumbersAnimalsDeerWildEatFail
There is a fantasy as old as the modern gay rights movement that if all our skins turned lavender overnight, the majority, confounded by our numbers and our diversity, and recognising a few of our faces, would at once let go of prejudice forevermore.
Ian Mckellen
DiversityGayNumbersGoPrejudice
Their elegant shape, showy colours, and slow, sailing mode of flight, make them very attractive objects, and their numbers are so great that they form quite a feature in the physiognomy of the forest, compensating for the scarcity of flowers.
Henry Walter Bates
GreatFlowersSlowForestNumbers
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