Donald Knuth Quotes
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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I've never been a calm, midrange type person.
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You didn't hear anything about 'Celtic Pride' when they had Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe and they were only winning 32 games a year.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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Who doesn't love 'Frogger?' It draws its power from our shared memories of powerlessness. Wherever we are now, at one time or another we have all felt the poor frog's anxiety in the face of the world's intransigence, its blind and callous disregard for our happiness or well-being.
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A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. Worry upsets our whole system; work keeps it in health and order.
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
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There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
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Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.
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I sometimes think that being widowed is God's way of telling you to come off the Pill.
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I will confess I did none of my own singing. I did all my own costume and makeup, though.
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You have to trust your body to take care of you.
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Men make more money but have lower net worths.
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No wonder lawyers, who control the legal system, have fought so hard, and with great success, against 'no fault' insurance. No fault, no lawsuits. No lawsuits, no lunch.
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The destinies of men are woven one with the other, and you can turn aside from them no more than you can turn aside from your own.
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People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
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We believe that electricity exists, because the electric company keeps sending us bills for it, but we cannot figure out how it travels inside wires.
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Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates. It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.
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I don't think that bands that make it on their first album are as strong as bands that don't: there is nowhere to go but down.
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
