Donald Knuth Quotes
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I'm still somebody that listens to a lot of James Brown, a lot of The O'Jays, a lot of TLC... in that era, producers had more musicianship.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
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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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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.
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How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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I was in juvenile detention center, and I was in Rikers Island. And there was an anthology written by the inmates called 'The Pen,' and I - you know, I had a crush on a girl, and she left me when I was incarcerated. And I found this poem in this anthology that talked about having your heart broken and being incarcerated.
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My dad was an engineer, and he became the CEO of Chevron. His was an engineer's mind-set: Everything's kind of a problem; how do you approach the problem?
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Not all drugs are good, all right? Some of them … are great. Just gotta know your way around them, is all.
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Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.
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In a strange kind of way I know were really popular and probably the biggest band in the country at the moment, but at the same time there is this real cult thing going on.
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A mathematical formula should never be 'owned' by anybody! Mathematics belong to God.
