Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes

If you do anything useful it will haunt you forever after, and if you have a major success you get decades of hard manual labor - meaning you have to work on the manual.

Bjarne Stroustrup

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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

Queen Latifah
- Work
- School
- Career
I have an issue with rage. I'm going to work that out, long term.

Nate Corddry
- Work
- Long
- Rage
People look at stuff like 'Godzilla' and 'Avengers' and think I only do blockbusters, or however you wanna put it, but in reality, I can make double or triple what I got paid for 'Avengers' by doing other stuff - there are other options, but I don't want to work with this person or that person, and so I don't do it.

Aaron Taylor-Johnson
- People
- Work
- Reality
Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.

Orlando Bloom
- Success
- Failure
- Disaster
It's a lot of work and I also feel like I've done it. I miss comedy. And I also think that, from purely a logistical standpoint, that the day-to-day schedule on a comedy allows you to have a life, much more of a life, than on a drama.

Adam Arkin
- Life
- Work
- Done
I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.

Kate McKinnon
- People
- Work
- Heart