David Gries Quotes
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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When you're a teenager, everything seems like the end of the world, and I don't think that's necessarily a silly thing. You're waking up and becoming aware that the world has problems and those problems affect you, whereas when you're young they don't seem to affect you that much even if you're aware of them.
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'The more expensive the better' is kind of the American way, and if you spent $600 for a sweatshirt, then that makes it better.
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I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
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Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.
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I hope there are going to be plenty of more roles to come.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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I can't speak for the other authors, but what I hoped to achieve was to illuminate certain corners of the Lucas universe that hadn't yet been explored.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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There are many guys out there who look like me - you know, brunettes with long hair. There are thousands. But I think the difference is that I am a real polo player, who does endorsements for Ralph Lauren on the side, and I've always looked at it that way.
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Anything worth doing good takes a little chaos.
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I'm a total weirdo and have often felt like an outcast and a freak, and I love that. It makes things so much more exciting.
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Jesus of Nazareth was a poet, no less than a prophet, of pre-eminent genius.
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Look at Loretta Lynn. Look at Jeannie C. Rily singing 'Harper Valley PTA' and Tammy Wynette singing about divorce. They were ahead of their times in a lot of ways.
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I am the son of a freedom fighter, and a son of a freedom fighter automatically imbibes the value of democracy.
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I'd love to be able to dance like Madhuri Dixit.
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What's weird is having your mother fly in on an aeroplane with your face on the side of it.
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I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.
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I'm not averse to telling people off.
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A formal parsing algorithm should not always be used.
