Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
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Without the media, the American people won't have the type of information they need to hold their leaders to account. The relationship between government and media has always been strained, and I think most of the time that's a healthy strain.
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Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.
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All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.
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I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
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The only way to get to the other end of the pitch is to belt it and then belt it again.
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What I've learned is that you really don't need to be a celebrity or have money or have the paparazzi following you around to be famous.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.
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Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
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When I first came to New York I was a dancer, and a French record label offered me a recording contract and I had to go to Paris to do it. So I went there and that's how I really got into the music business. But I didn't like what I was doing when I got there, so I left, and I never did a record there.
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Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.
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I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.
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The worst mistake a woman can make is to emulate a man.
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The idea that it is necessary to go to a university in order to become a successful writer . . . is one of those fantasies that surround authorship.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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You perform at your best when you are working continually on high-priority goals and objectives.
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It is probable that both in life and in art the values of a woman are not the values of a man.
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There should be no such thing as boring mathematics.
