Edward Yourdon Quotes
Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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Everything I do now is a first.
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Our culture in India is not a culture where we grudge each other.
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Emily Gannett is tireless. I know this because I have traded emails with her at 2 A.M. only to later wake blearily to a chipper morning missive sent south of 6 A.M. before her morning run.
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Unfortunately, anti-Darwinism keeps playing minor variations on the same negative themes and adds nothing to our understanding of life.
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I think Raymond is very honest about human relationships.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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I did a 'Last Comic Standing' audition in 2006, where you're just performing for three people in a comedy club, in a big comedy club, and I remember them cutting me off, asking about my name in the middle of one of my jokes. Yeah, it's just real weird when you're doing stand-up in that type of sterile, unnatural setting.
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I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
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God helps those who fear Him.
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If you treat your wife like a thoroughbred, you'll never end up with a nag.
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I'm always honest.
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To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
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I really dislike it when the media asks young actresses, normally when they're about 23, how they feel about ageing. There are other things to worry about.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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People don't like the music that's out now, that's on their radio stations, and they want to hear something different, but they're just the audience. You know, people will keep the TV on even if a show is on that they hate - because, unfortunately, they've been programmed to do that. [But] they are really looking for something that's gonna speak to the world that they're living in. That's what people are looking for, but they're not finding it.
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I've developed this routine at home. I wait for the kids to go to bed; then my wife falls asleep. Then, it's dark and quiet enough for me to work on songs.
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I've seen straight, partnered women explain their decision to stay at home by noting that childcare would have taken too much out of their paycheck - as if this cost was just theirs to bear!
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The company is not and must never claim to be home, family, religion, life or fate for the individual. It must never interfere in his private life or his citizenship. He is tied to the company through a voluntary and cancellable employment contract, not through some mystical or indissoluble bond.
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Unless you are very rich and very eccentric, you will not enjoy the luxury of a computer in your own home.
