Bjarne Stroustrup Quotes
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I wanted to publish a book simply to be buried with it; that's all I wanted. I had no ambition beyond that.
Edith Pearlman -
Creative people are more prone to depression.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Owen D. Young -
I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
Sam Hunt -
I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
Sally Phillips
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I remember once, we got an interview, and he said, 'Dad, these people are writing about me like I'm an adult. Don't they know I'm a kid?' I have never tried to encourage him to get a music image like other musicians have.
Ornette Coleman -
Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
Patricia Schroeder -
For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
Anton Zaslavski -
With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
Walter Pater -
The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.
Salman Rushdie -
I would be hard-pressed to look back at anything that I have done in my career and not say, 'I would have done that a little different' because hindsight is 20/20.
Sam Huntington
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I'm not girly girly enough to care how I look on TV, or if I'm wearing the correct make up.
Majandra Delfino -
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by myself. I learnt a lot from that, and I feel that it is a big reason why I now have a good intuitive understanding of chess.
Magnus Carlsen -
It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
Walter O'Brien -
As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was.
Paris Hilton -
In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Saint Augustine -
I was a 'Laurel and Hardy' nut. I got to know Laurel at the end of his life, and it was a great thrill for me. He left me his bow tie and derby and told me that if they ever made a movie about him, he'd want me to play him.
Dick Van Dyke -
If you are a young person who is wanting to develop a passion, you cannot expect anyone else to tell you what that passion would be.
Angela Duckworth -
I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
Bjarne Stroustrup