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 feel uncomfortable because I'm insecure about who I am.
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I do reread, kind of obsessively, partly for the surprise of how the same book reads at a different point in life, and partly to have the sense of returning to an old friend.
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I do believe that if it's meant to be, it will be. Luckily for me, things worked out.
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I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.
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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.
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Most of the time I liked school and got good grades. In junior high, though, I hit a stumbling block with math - I used to come home and cry because of how frustrated I was! But after a few good teachers and a lot of perseverance, I ended up loving math and even choosing it as a major when I got to college.
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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.
