Donald Knuth Quotes
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Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience.
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My advice to anybody, including myself, is if you're going through a bad period, and you just can't see the world's on your shoulders and no day is a good day, you're missing the whole point of the experience. And that's something dogs know from the moment they come bounding up to you as a puppy.
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When we have a good balance between thinking and feeling... our actions and lives are always the richer for it.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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When I sit down with my notebook, when I start scribbling words across the page, I find out what I'm feeling.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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I like to play table tennis, spend time with my kids.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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The fastest way for a politician to become an elder statesman is to lose an election.
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I like all music. The only music I don't like is bad music.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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When I was growing up, I was very lucky. My family was the most important thing to me. They provided me with somewhere safe to grow and learn, and I know I was fortunate not to have been confronted by serious adversity at a young age.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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Most of my friends - when I was five, six, seven years old - their dads were working in an auto plant in Detroit until 5:30, and then they were sat in rush hour. They weren't around as much. My dad finished at three o'clock, so he was just around more.
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I would vote for the man who's lived life, who's done different occupations, who's been out in the real world and struggled to make a living, struggled to raise a family, struggled with life as it exists. So I'd vote for experience, honest experience.
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Maybe one of the only things I do well: I cook like a maniac! I would be a chef if I weren't an actor.
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A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.
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I grew up in a pretty religious house. My family was Roman Catholic, and I couldn't wait to get away from that. But that doesn't mean I'm not a spiritual person.
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You cannot expect a foreign country to be more Catholic than the pope for you.
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When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
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Roll rocks down a ten-thousand-foot mountain, and they cannot be stopped - this is because of the mountain, not the rocks. Get people to fight with the courage to win every time, and the strong and the weak unite - this is because of the momentum, not the individuals.
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A list is only as strong as its weakest link.
