Donald Knuth Quotes
In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
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When I talk to young girls about clothes, I tell them to show a lot of brains.
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I am especially fascinated with mermaids, and they are always coming out in pirate stories.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.
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Many Democrats have a pre-9/11 worldview.
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I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops. I love literature. If you want to understand art, it's important to understand what is also happening in literature, in music, in science, in architecture.
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I really loved 'Witches of Eastwick', the movie with Michelle Pfeiffer and Jack Nicholson and Cher.
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
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When you have somebody like a Donald Trump - he made no bones about trying to disprove Barack Obama's Americanism in trying to make him out to be some foreigner that was born in Kenya. I thought that to be very racist.
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Acting is equal parts talent and perseverance.
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I'm sure in the history of Harvard, and the history of most schools, there's been some pretty crazy parties that I'm not even sure you could even capture on film how silly and ridiculous they were.
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I am not quite a poet but I am something of the kind.
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I need about three seats lengthwise to sleep on a plane. It's not easy for me to curl up.
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If you're not doing something different, you're not doing anything.
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I spend my money like I don't have anything.
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
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The 'hood don't really wanna hear it, but you need brown rice, you need wheat bread, stuff like that.
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Tradition has made women cowardly.
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I've learned to trust myself that I'm going to make healthy choices because I care about my health.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.
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We know perfectly well that neither love nor peace of mind can be bought with any currency.
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I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.
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In fact what I would like to see is thousands of computer scientists let loose to do whatever they want. That's what really advances the field.
