Alan Perlis Quotes
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There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky -
I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
Queen Latifah -
Manufacturing takes place in very large facilities. If you want to build a computer chip, you need a giant semiconductor fabrication facility. But nature can grow complex molecular machines using nothing more than a plant.
Ralph Merkle -
Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
Camille Paglia -
The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
Samuel Butler -
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
Sammi Hanratty -
I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
Rachel Nichols -
From a very young age, I wanted to get up on stage whenever I went to the theatre - the actors just seemed to be having so much fun. One of my worries about theatre, in fact, is that the actors are quite often having more fun than the audience.
Olivia Williams -
Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
Tammy Baldwin -
Look, all you can do when you find your niche is go with it.
Vincent D'Onofrio -
'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
Abbi Glines
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He was born in 1741, a descendant of the Rhode Island equivalent of royalty. The first Benedict Arnold had been one of the colony's founders, and subsequent generations had helped to establish the Arnolds as solid and respected citizens.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
Pat Robertson -
Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.
Wendy Kopp -
I'm obsessed with 'Homeland.' It's not even okay.
Laura Prepon -
I don't keep secrets from my parents, really; it's pretty open.
Sam Rockwell -
If I die tomorrow, I've done the two hardest things anybody can do in this life with the least amount of security - music and acting - and I've had success in both. I can't really complain. I try not to live my life that way.
Yul Vazquez
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There are three things being a celebrity is good for: raising money for charity, dinner reservations and tee times.
Dennis Quaid -
I don't think even when you find a person, you can be completely honest, ever. There's still pieces of you that you don't give away. I do believe you always need that place where it's just you, your thoughts, no one else's judgment or anything.
Alicia Keys -
China is still the fastest growing economy in the world, but we need to learn how to use money in a better way, and it's about quality, not quantity.
Jack Ma -
I don't want a gamer to feel like they have to commit their whole life to changing the world.
Jane McGonigal -
My favorite mode of communication is in the world beyond: a dream, to see in a dream. My second favorite is correspondence.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
Alan Perlis