Donald Knuth Quotes
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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The most important thing that everybody can do, aside from building and keeping your network strong, is make good choices about your health.
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No one would feel embarrassed about seeking help for a child if they broke their arm - and we really should be equally ready to support a child coping with emotional difficulties.
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What I loathe is the multi-national conglomerates who must take responsibility for the degradation and pollution of so much of our landscape with their factory farming and greed.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
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If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Monti is a person who is an expert on both the political and professional level.
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I am against great themes and great subjects... You can't film an idea. The camera is an instrument for recording physical impact.
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Since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act in 1963, the gap between men and women's earnings has narrowed by less than a half-cent per year. At this rate, American women will have to wait until 2062 to bring home the same salary as their male counterparts.
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I'm kind of an animated person. I was given this really big blessing that my voice just kind of carries the emotion.
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The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.
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Trees sprout up just about everywhere in computer science...
