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.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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I love Lady Gaga and I love Katy Perry and R&B and rap music... I love big, American pop music.
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I've tried to work really hard on never phoning in the lyrics.
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I'm a big fan of community, and I think independence is over-rated.
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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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.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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For the longest time, I wanted to become a pianist. That was kinda my thing.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
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As long as ugly people are not on TV, you should only ever have interesting people on TV.
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As an actress, our hours can be grueling, and like any mother that has a career or job, it is difficult. Balancing spending time with your child in the morning and after they come home from daycare/school before is the key.
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When people ask me how old the Earth is, I tell them I don't know because I don't.
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The bosses of our mass media, press, radio, film and television, succeed in their aim of taking our minds off disaster. Thus, the distraction they offer demands the antidote of maximum concentration on disaster.
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...when General Eisenhower defined an intellectual as 'a man who takes more words than is necessary to tell more than he knows', he was speaking not as a Republican but as an American.
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The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.
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I would encourage nonproprietary standards for tools and libraries.
