Brian Kernighan Quotes
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It's interesting to know how much you are worth.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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I don't think many people will re-read 'The Da Vinci Code.'
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I think you're lucky if you discover what you really love at a young age. College wasn't something I was going to do. I wanted to keep acting, and I didn't want to go to New York or California and pound the pavement.
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Theater is a way to keep challenging myself.
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I like 'Rocky Horror.'
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.
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The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.
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I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer.
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For Conor McGregor, I'm coming out of retirement just to fight Conor McGregor.
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It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.
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Science fiction fans are awesome - they love you so much that they'll watch anything you do, even if it's complete crap. I never dreamed that I would go to conventions and sit down and have coffee with a Klingon. It's so weird, but it's my life.
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A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo; and zoo animals have been known to die from stares.
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The fragile wants tranquility, the antifragile grows from disorder, and the robust doesn't care too much.
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'Well,' he said. 'Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.'
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If we penalize mothers for denial of 'visitation time' we must also penalize fathers who don’t show up for 'visitation time.' The issue is not fathers’ rights to visitation time, but both parents obligations to their children. The issue is how to make both parents real parents despite what parenting was never designed to deal with - divorce.
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To a young actor: How tall are you without your horse? Six foot, seven inches. Never mind the six feet. Let's talk about the seven inches!
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Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.
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I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.
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I will never apologize for being me, speaking the truth & giving all of me to the world. I will never apologize for being real & how I feel.
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The righties connect with Joe Beercan better than the Democrats do.
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Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
