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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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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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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In September 2005, I was three things: the media blogger for 'FishbowlNY,' a maniacal Daily Show fan, and the only person to smuggle a tape recorder and camera into a big Magazine Publishers of America event featuring Jon Stewart interviewing five hotshot magazine editors in an unbelievable bloodbath.
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I am convinced we do not only love ourselves in others but hate ourselves in others too.
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Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler.
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Everyday life is like programming, I guess. If you love something you can put beauty into it.
