Alan Perlis Quotes
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Walter Bagehot -
The dialysis is to wash my blood, to keep my kidneys functioning.
Natalie Cole -
I started as kind of an outsider - freelancer working from home, building contacts from the ground up etc. - so I didn't have too many relationships holding me back.
Rachel Sklar -
Nonviolent action does not have to get others to be nice. It can in effect force them to consult their consciences.
Barbara Deming -
Why have one chandelier when you can have two?
Candice Olson -
Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
W. Clement Stone
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Nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent, the nightingale for its song, and the sun for its radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellence of the human mind.
Alfred North Whitehead -
Wo viel Licht ist, ist starker Schatten.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
Azar Nafisi -
When Edna O'Brien's first novel, 'The Country Girls,' was published in 1960, her family and neighbors in the small Irish village where she was born tossed copies into a bonfire expressly set for that horrifying purpose.
Alan Cheuse -
I'm like a little kid when it comes to music. I mean, the music is always blasting wherever I am that people always knock on my door and say, 'It's too loud!' But I think music gives so much inspiration.
Donatella Versace -
I don't tell many people my last name.
Allegra Versace
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To sing opera, one needs two things: the voice and the passion - and above all, the passion.
Andrea Bocelli -
I'm totally pro-porg! I would not eat a porg. They're so cute; you can't eat them. They're friends!
Kelly Marie Tran -
You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.
James Sinegal -
If you want to be around in 10 years you've got to do something to differentiate yourself from the pack.
Chris Evans -
I have a lot of mermaid stuff. I did start collecting a lot before I had children because I didn't know if I would have a boy or a girl. So I saved everything.
Jodi Benson -
I don't have much time for shopping so I pick things up when I can. My favorite labels are APC, Isabel Marant and Agnes B because the clothes are cut small and have a simplicity to them.
Felicity Jones
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You just put your head down and do the work.
Jeffrey Tambor -
My impression, is that prayer is one of the most basic forms of magic. That it's harnessing the powers of your mind.
Boyd Rice -
I wake up and fall in love with you like that day at the bakery.
Fábio Moon -
The west is very concerned and actually afraid because the media is not informing them. There are too many moderate Muslims who are trying to whitewash the fears and concerns of the West. It's time for us to face reality - nobody is against Muslims. When I'm speaking about this situation, it's about Islamic doctrine. Islamic doctrine promotes violence and hatred against non Muslims. 60% of the Koran is dedicated to cursing and spreading hatred and violence against non-Muslims who are called 'Kaffir'.
Reza Aslan -
31: Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis