Andrew Plotkin Quotes

If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

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• Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

  

  Nat King Cole
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• That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Work
  • Want
  • Morning

• To be a good artist, you have to serve the work of art and allow it to be what it is supposed to be.

  

  Larry Wall
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  • Work
  • Art

• Museums are for dead artists. I'd never show my work in the Tate. You'd never get me in that place.

  

  Damien Hirst
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  • Place
  • Dead

• I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices.

  

  Barbara Kruger
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• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
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  • Responsibility
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• I really wanted to work and become independent.

  

  Victoria Abril
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  • Independent
  • Become

• The reason I collaborate with Louis Vuitton is that Louis Vuitton is number one in the world, and I am honored to work with them.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
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  • Collaborate
  • Louis Vuitton

• You know, sometimes if you work – if you do a lot of takes and you work long hours, for me, at least, there is a delirium that starts kicking in on the fifteenth hour, and that can help. Below the just thirteenth hour is where I have a concern, because everybody's so tired.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
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  • Help
  • Tired

• When you start off acting, it does seem very romantic, and the make-believe part of it all seems very exciting. It's only later that you begin to realize how fascinating the work is - that it's a bottomless pit, and you never get to the end of it.

  

  Sada Thompson
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  • Believe
  • End

• Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there are more shortcuts, and once you learned the language, it's more expressive.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Work
  • You
  • Language

• I do work on a little bit of weights just to get my power up.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Up
  • Work
  • Power

• To make our way, we must have firm resolve, persistence, tenacity. We must gear ourselves to work hard all the way. We can never let up.

  

  Ralph Bunche
  • Up
  • Work
  • Persistence

• When I started to work with UNICEF, it was a new way of giving some love and care to the world.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • World
  • Work
  • Giving

• I've always had a chip on my shoulder. It kind of drives me. It's something that allows me to train harder, train longer, work better.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Work
  • Better
  • Train

• As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

  

  Harold Ramis
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  • Great
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• Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
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  • Completion

• All that's left now is purely poetic work, putting more life into individual places, as I've made so sure of the fundamental mood and dimension of expression that it won't leave me groping around in uncertainty any more.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Life
  • Work
  • Mood

• You never know when I might decide to work in a Bollywood film and do one of those dance numbers with the whole crew in the backdrop.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Work
  • Dance

• I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American.

  

  J. Maarten Troost
  • Life
  • Time
  • American

• Pilots are not the threat.

  

  John Pistole

• Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.

  

  C. Wagner
  • God
  • Church
  • Spirit

• Early on in my career I had a lot of bad press about my temperament, but I was only a young lad then.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Bad
  • Career
  • Early

• If C++ has taught me one thing, it's this: Just because the system is consistent doesn't mean it's not the work of Satan.

  

  Andrew Plotkin
  • Work
  • System
  • Consistent