Dennis Ritchie Quotes
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You can never plan the future by the past.
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One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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I wish I had the billions of dollars that George Soros has that he has used to fund Democratic causes in the past.
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The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
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The biggest thing is education for young chefs and how they should focus on one cuisine rather than trying to imitate too many. It's like art - you can see the cycles from many past artists and new artists being inspired by past artists.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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I've done stuff in the past and followed in the footsteps of my heroes, and each time, it felt a little bit surreal.
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In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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I'm really obsessed with the past.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure to spell my name wrong.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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I don't connect much with the present. I have more of an affinity for what came in the past.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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There's not a Sunday that goes past that I'm not excited to play this game. I feel as if I'm a lucky individual to have the opportunity to play this game, and when I do have the opportunity to finally play, you can bet your last dollar I will be excited to play.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
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I've never been more famous than I was, suddenly, in 1986.
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
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I earned my professional credibility a long time ago in a male-dominated world. I just hope that as a woman, I bring in an extra dimension to the job. I bring in the sensitivity of being a woman and a mother, and that means I pay more attention to women, children, and the social needs of society.
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I don't retain facts very well when it comes to music history.
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Over the past several years, I've been more in a managerial role.
