Dennis Ritchie Quotes
The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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My daughter Mira's first media experience was with the first-generation iPad more than five years ago. Her speech therapist used this with her to encourage her to talk, as she was speech delayed. I watched as she immediately navigated the iPad naturally, with such ease.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.
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I like having a smaller family. I think the more people you have in the family, the more people there are to have problems with.
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One of two historically African American communities that sprang up along the Mississippi Gulf Coast after emancipation, North Gulfport has always been a place where residents have had fewer civic resources than those extended to other outlying communities.
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The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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Pictures must not be too picturesque.
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I only know that I fired twice, or perhaps several times, without knowing whether I had hit or missed.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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It is my passion to direct movies.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.
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Listen, my friend! Your helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas. He hears it from the very moment that you are seized with helplessness, and He becomes actively engaged at once in hearing and answering the prayer of your helplessness.
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At the end of the day, my life isn't about other people's work. I've got to stop giving stuff away. I've got my own stories to tell, and a great need to tell them. I've got these images, these thoughts in my head, and I need to find a way to cope with them.
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Some people might think that what I've done before made it easier for me to get jobs, but it was actually a disadvantage. I had to work even harder.
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I don't believe I can offend you in a comedy club. I don't believe I can offend you in a concert. A comedy club is a place where you work out material; you're trying material.
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I know most players do, but I always keep both eyes opened. I still do it. I see two shafts, the real one and the transparent one. I look for what's on the inside edge of the transparent one.
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The visible things that have come from the group have been the Plan 9 system and Inferno, but I hasten to say that the ideas and the work have come from colleagues.
