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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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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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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You're not going to hear me sing about being on a tractor or being married... because I don't know anything about that.
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I don't really think in career terms.
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The World Cup is a very complicated tournament - six games, seven if you make it to the final - and maybe if you lose one game you're out, even if you're the best.
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If I was going to do anything, I'd be a producer, only because I'd like to have a say in what gets made and what doesn't.
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Stories are what death thinks he puts an end to. He can't understand that they end in him, but they don't end with him.
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I feel like what Director Bong is so amazing at is taking so many things and presenting them to you - never telling you how to think, but, if you leave the theater thinking something, we've done our jobs right.
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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body nature is, and God the soul.
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If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
