Danica McKellar Quotes

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• When you do take the home pregnancy test, it doesn't quite seem real. But when you see the baby and the heartbeat on the ultrasound, it's so incredible.

  Danica McKellar

  Baby, Real, Pregnancy

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• Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.

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  Math, Brain, Mind

  "'Wonder Years' star insists smart is sexy". Interview with Katie McLaughlin, www.cnn.com. August 16, 2010.

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• Math is the only place where truth and beauty mean the same thing.

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  Mean, Math, Science

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• I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

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  Self Confidence, Math, Careers

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• A lot of girls think they have to choose between being the smart geeky type or the beautiful bimbo.

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  Beautiful, Girl, Smart

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• If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.

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  Beautiful, Fun, Smart

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• Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

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  Math, Understanding, Height

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• Math proficiency is the gateway to a number of incredible careers that students may never have considered.

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  Math, Careers, Numbers

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• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

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  Naked, Appropriate, Ifs

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• Let's make math fun and sexy and glamorous. Smart is sexy, that's one of my main messages.

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  Sexy, Fun, Smart

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• My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.

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  Fun, School, Math

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.

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  Challenges, Kind, Persons

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I took a break from acting for four years to get a degree in mathematics at UCLA, and during that time I had the rare opportunity to actually do research as an undergraduate. And myself and two other people co-authored a new theorem: Percolation and Gibbs States Multiplicity for Ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller Models on Two Dimensions, or Z2.

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  Opportunity, Ucla, Years

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• I am definitely a serial monogamist. I can count on one hand the number of guys I've been with.

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  Numbers, Hands, Guy

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• One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

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  Beautiful, Art, Math

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• I want girls to feel the confidence you get from being smart.

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  Girl, Smart, Want

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• I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.

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  Guy, Pampering, Stuff

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• Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.

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  Perseverance, Teacher, Block

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• There is an epidemic right now of girls dumbing themselves down... in middle school because they think it makes them attractive.

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  Girl, School, Thinking

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

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  Giving, Cameras, Salary

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• Confidence is one of the sexiest things in guys and girls.

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  Girl, Guy, Sexiest

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• I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.

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  Girl, Math, College

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I noticed there were so many people, especially women, who would come up to me having recognized me from TV and say, 'I heard you were a math person, why math? Oh my gosh, I could never do math!' I could just see their self-esteem crumbling; I thought that was silly, so I wanted to make math more friendly and accessible.

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  Self Esteem, Silly, Math

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• If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?

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  Girl, Fashion, Teaching

  "Math Book Helps Girls Embrace Their Inner Mathematician". Interview with Aaron Rowe, www.wired.com. August 2, 2007.

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• I've been eating tons of organic foods, staying away from processed sugars, white flours, and anything artificial. It's the same as my normal regime, but I'm being even stricter, because everything I put into my body is literally building this precious baby inside me.

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  Baby, White, Body

  "Danica McKellar: 'My Hope Is To Go Fully Natural – No Epidural, No Interventions'". Interview with Jenny Schafer, celebritybabyscoop.com. July 8, 2010.

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