Donald Knuth Quotes
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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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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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
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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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Your parents only want what's best for you. They know a career in the arts usually means living paycheck to paycheck; they just want you to know that you have other options!
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Men make more money but have lower net worths.
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Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
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Markets really matter. Because the bigger the market, the more targets there are for the missile to hit.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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I wasn't popular in high school; I had no friends.
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
