Donald Knuth Quotes
The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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The cat is classic whilst the dog is Gothic - nowhere in the animal world can we discover such really Hellenic perfection of form, with anatomy adapted to function, as in the felidae.
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I need this wild life, this freedom.
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I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
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I don't really see myself as an actor.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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I really love learning and working long hours.
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Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
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I work a lot with my ski sponsor, Head, to develop new technologies.
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I never wanted to be a model. My modelling career was nothing but a stepping stone to my acting career and that's all I ever saw it as. A pointless rock in the river that has to be stepped on in order to get to the meaningful oasis of acting.
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The way I understand it, the Russians are sort of a combination of evil and incompetence... sort of like the Post Office with tanks.
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Fantasy fans are incredibly loyal and passionate. Other people don't want to be seen as passionate about things, they want to be cool and laconic. The great thing about fantasy fans is they'll really get behind a show.
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I wanted to invent myself as a fictional character. And I did, and it has caused a great deal of confusion.
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Muslims in France should be able to practice their religion freely and safely.
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Being vegan is a glorious adventure. It touches every aspect of my life - my relationships, how I relate to the world.
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The whole thing that makes a mathematician’s life worthwhile is that he gets the grudging admiration of three or four colleagues.
