Donald Knuth Quotes
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I am a control freak. I will admit that freely.
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I don't worry about the things I can't change.
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Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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Why are ecologists and environmentalists so feared and hated? This is because in part what they have to say is new to the general public, and the new is always alarming.
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Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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I read a very romantic book when I was young, when I was in college: Rilke's 'Letters to a Young Poet.' And I've always felt that if you are in any kind of an artistic, creative endeavor, and you feel there's something else you can do for a living and be happy, I think you should do something else.
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The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me – from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood.
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The moral landscape is the framework I use for thinking about questions of morality and human values in universal terms.
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I'm actually a very lazy person. Most of the time, I'm happy to sit around and stare. Or watch bad TV soaps. It's quite rare for me to get inspired by anything, but it could be something small. A view of the Serpentine. A snatch of music. Or a little shred of conversation overheard on a bus, such as, 'You also will marry someone of my choice.'
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I'm a voracious reader, and I love to throw myself into it.
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Let us unite on the safe and sure ground of fact and experiment, and we can never err; yet better, we can never differ.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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You don't cruise the Internet looking for your name and walk away with a good feeling. So, I never do it.
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With the daguerreotype, everyone will be able to have their portrait taken . . . and at the same time everything is being done to make us all look exactly the same.
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
