Donald Knuth Quotes
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I am often in contact with the hareidi public and politicians.
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Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I definitely enjoy the kind of magic that happens being on stage with a group when everything's working. The vibe when that's happening gets even better if the audience is involved and you can feel that interaction. That's something you don't get with your headphones on in a studio; it's much different.
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I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.
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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
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It's difficult to act in a language that's not your own. It takes a long time to put your head around it and feel confident with it.
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I've been careful to work with good people on interesting material, mostly.
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If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.
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My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.
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The United States and Mexico are trapped - economically, culturally, politically and because of drug crime - in the same continent.
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
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I'm more disturbed when people expect me to be serious.
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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
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The first time I ever went out of the country, it was to London. I was with the choir from my college, and we were touring around all these different churches. I loved it so much I tried to find a way to stay there.
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It is important that the Iraqi people have confidence in the election results and that the voting process, including the process for vote counting, is free and fair.
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A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.
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This is your baby. Go do it.
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It is not necessary to succeed in order to persevere. As long as there is a margin of hope, however narrow, we have no choice but to base all our actions on that margin. America and Russia have one interest in common which may override all their other interests: to be able to live with the bomb without getting into an all-out war that neither of them wants.
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I've been jailed once, put in police lock-up twice, and was under house arrest twice.
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All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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Kitsch is more dangerous than it looks when taken to the extreme.
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I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof.
