Dennis Ritchie Quotes
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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I was raised Catholic, and my grandmother taught me to stay. As a teenager, I thought if you went on a date, you should stay for a couple of years. I didn't realize that if he wasn't your cup of tea, you got to leave.
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He was about building up the Trump name and then selling it and leasing it in as many different ways as possible.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Though I am a Catholic, a professing one, I have serious doubts about the survival of the human personality after death.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.
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Our military men and women are our greatest national treasure. They should be safeguarded as such upon their return.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.'
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A good story, just like a good sentence, does more than one job at once. That's what literature is: a story that does more than tell a story, a story that manages to reflect in some way the multilayered texture of life itself.
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There is no falsification before the emergence of a better theory.
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Common sense is compelled to make its way without the enthusiasm of anyone.
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I was getting old, man. I was staring 27 in the face.
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There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.
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I watch 'Entourage.' I aspire the good life that they live and lead. Honestly, I am just trying to be me by trying to do good films, have fun at it and trying to work with good directors, and, of course, I am a bit of a silent party boy, also. I have my share of fun sometime, too.
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I want to be the candidate placed on the ballot by the people, not the party.
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I have enough money to satisfy myself for a lifetime.
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I am not now, nor have I ever been, a member of the demigodic party.
