Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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During workouts, I listen to Pandora, and I like the '90s pop stations. 'The Backstreet Boys' is fun!
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There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
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I am very happy my Olympic dream has come true.
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Our alliances and our credibility are crucial elements of our working capital in advancing America's interests in the world, and they have been eroded over the last four years.
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I don't do grey. I like my colour, my style.
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I loved being on the set of 'Field of Dreams' because I hung out with the baseball players all day, played cards, flirted with Ray Liotta, and had a ball.
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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When I graduated, I was director of my school's sketch comedy group, and I knew that I wanted to be writing and performing my own sketch comedy. It kind of made me want to do my own one-person sketch group.
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As a viewer, the minute I start getting confused, I check out of the movie. Emotionally, I'm severed.
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I approve of anyone wearing what the establishment says you must not wear.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I have a fascination with Flight 93. My emotions are mixed: awe, gratitude, fear, heartache, pride - even, in some ways, guilt.
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In the '70s I was in exile; every time I went back I wondered if they'd take my passport away.
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I was eight when I left Sarajevo, so I didn't really know very much about my culture and it was so important for me to go back to my roots and meet the people.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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You might call me an accidental entrepreneur.
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In 2008, I was in a London park when I came across a fledgling crow that had fallen from the top of an oak tree. A woman happened to be passing, and she said that she rescued animals, so she invited me back to her house. It turned out she was the wife of Jeff Beck. Jeff was there, and we ended up jamming together.
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We've seen smaller guys in main event fights, and they do well. It just takes the right combination of people I think. I think Dominick Cruz v. T.J. Dillashaw could have main-evented a PPV and done pretty good.
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Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.
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Physicists however will be forced to recognize that the energy within molecular structures has its origin elsewhere. They will be forced to postulate the existence of an unknown force, always existing despite newer current theories. No postulated new force theory will be able to explain reality.
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I was very excited to meet Amanda Seyfried. She is one of the most humbling human beings you will ever meet. She deserves success.
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The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers.
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So I would say God hates war, but God loves every soldier.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
