Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
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The Palestinian Rifle is ready and we will aim it if they try to prevent us from praying in Jerusalem.
Yasser Arafat
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For me, graffiti means making marks on surfaces using just about anything, be it markers, spray, paint, chalk, lipstick, varnish, ink. Or it can be the result of scratches and incisions. The aim is to maintain the energy created by disturbance or excitement in the street.
Barry McGee
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I aim to direct as much as I act at some point in time.
Ian Somerhalder
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My ultimate aim would be to captivate an audience, even just for a second.
Tabrett Bethell
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We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The film I do doesn't have to be a film that only my kids can watch. My kids will watch films, but I will decide what they watch and not. My aim is to play different characters and not be stuck in a mould. Just because you are a mom and a wife doesn't meant you have to play those roles, even in films.
Madhuri Dixit
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If you aim for parody right off the bat and it misses, no offense to the filmmakers, but it is Meet the Spartans.
Adam McKay
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If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time.
Zig Ziglar
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Realize that illness and other temporal setbacks often come to us from the hand of God our Lord, and are sent to help us know ourselves better, to free ourselves of the love of created things, and to reflect on the brevity of this life and, thus, to prepare ourselves for the life which is without end.
Saint Ignatius
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You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.
Walt Disney
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Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.
Victor Hugo
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Small aim is a crime; have great aim.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel.
Yitzhak Shamir
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Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.
Bryan Adams
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Our aim has also been to find a design that will begin to repair both the wounded cityscape and our wounded souls, to provide a place for the contemplation of both loss and new life.
Vartan Gregorian
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It is not the aim of Kenpo to merely produce a skillful as well as powerful practitioner, but to create a well integrated student respectful of all.
Ed Parker
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Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself.
Alan Alda
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Life is like crossing a river. If you take a huge step-aim for too bigger dreams-then the current will knock you off your feet and carry you away. The way to do it is small steps, you will take hold of life. You will get there in the end.
Louis Sachar
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All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life.
Oscar Wilde
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Mineral cactai, quicksilver lizards in the adobe walls, the bird that punctures space, thirst, tedium, clouds of dust, impalpable epiphanies of wind. The pines taught me to talk to myself. In that garden I learnedto send myself off. Later there were no gardens.
Octavio Paz
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I don't really know what the Great American Novel is. I like the idea that there could be one now, and I wouldn't object if someone thought it was mine, but I don't claim to have written that - I just wrote my book.
Rachel Kushner
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I think the days of just filling the time and putting a disc out is over, and I'm glad, because those are some of my least favourite records.
Frank Iero
My Chemical Romance
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There's a reason that there are oodles of young Aussies, Germans, Japanese, even Chinese backpackers traipsing around the world. They are unencumbered by debilitating student loans. No such luck for the American Theater Arts major with $120,000 in loans.
J. Maarten Troost
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Aim for brevity while avoiding jargon.
Edsger Dijkstra