Kent Beck Quotes
When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.
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We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.
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Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!
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People may remember something I did on the field for a couple of days, maybe a week.
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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Adele's look is meticulously thought through and completely of her own traits. She has such a powerful beauty, such an emotional voice, and the kohl, the hair, everything feels organically molded to her personality.
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I'm not that involved in personal grooming. But I try not to be offensive to people.
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We know a great deal more about the causes of physical disease than we do about the causes of physical health.
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Bram Stoker's 'Dracula' was a story about the fear of immigration; the bad old bloodsucker swooping in from Eastern Europe and also preying upon 'our' vulnerable women.
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When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted really to be the kind of actress I became.
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What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.
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I was studying music in college. I was singing, I was doing operas and Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, and then I was offered a job as the music director of the Bigfork Summer Playhouse, in Bigfork, Montana.
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I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.
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If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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I was in Beijing a month ago working on the smoke project in collaboration with an architect there, and I was asked very directly whether it was safe to breathe in the smoke. They did not have confidence in the museum not to use harmful smoke, and they certainly didn't have confidence that the city would protect them from harmful smoke.
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
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I'm the kind of person that responds strongly to a challenge.
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It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
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I don't want to live in a world where I could say to my daughter, 'There used to be turtles that swam in the ocean.'
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I was living in New York City and flat broke. My next door neighbor was an actor and he always seemed to be having more fun than I was. He convinced me to give acting a shot, but because of my shyness I was sure it would be a lost cause.
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When you feel the need to write a comment, first try to refactor the code so that any comment becomes superfluous.
