Donald Knuth Quotes
Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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There are so many Muslim women that feel like they don't fit society's standard of beauty. I just wanted to tell them it's OK to be different; being different is beautiful, too.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
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In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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It's very trying on a marriage when you're doing a one hour show, week after week after week. You don't have enough time for people that maybe you should have top priority.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I heard the new film, 'Tangerine,' was filmed entirely on iPhones. No cameras were involved!
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Both the Winter and the Summer Solstices are expressions of love. They show us the opposition of light and dark, expansion and contraction, that characterize our experiences in the Earth school so that we can recognize our options as we move through our lives.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.
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As far as I'm concerned, it's no good being able to wail out smokin' leads if your rhythm chops hugg!
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Sometimes I think I could have got some better results if I had a different mentality; if I could have pushed hard and attacked. But then I would have had a good chance of making a mistake.
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To the men exposed to his rule Lymond never appeared ill: he was never tired; he was never worried, or pained, or disappointed, or passionately angry. If he rested, he did so alone; if he slept, he took good care to sleep apart. “—I sometimes doubt if he’s human,” said Will, speaking his thought aloud. “It’s probably all done with wheels.
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Schizophrenia cannot be understood without understanding despair.
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There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
