- Pierre de Fermat
(08/16/1601 – 01/12/1665)
French mathematician, notes in the margin of his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica
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"To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it."
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"It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others, not to write at all."
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"Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one."
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"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."
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"Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable."
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"When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed."
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"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."
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"It was so wonderful being on 'Batman,' because you could be nasty and mean, and in the fifties women could never (unless you were some 'B' picture actress) be mean, bad, and nasty. It was so satisfying; I can't tell you how satisfying it was."
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"I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies."
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"I don't look at scripts. I just write them."
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"Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion."
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