Edsger Dijkstra Quotes
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.Edsger Dijkstra
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox -
Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
Babasaheb -
My work was entirely nonfiction.
Laura Hillenbrand -
The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
Xavier Dolan -
I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.
Damon Galgut -
You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
Yoko Ono
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Boning is a pain, but it makes such a majestic chicken.
Daniel Boulud -
No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
Dana Boente -
After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
Abdolkarim Soroush -
I crave attention and adventure.
Eddie Cibrian -
I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
Taylor Swift -
Social conditions that spur large numbers of people into action are ignored in favor of a Hollywood version of history focusing on one conquering hero. Since a movement for social change is embodied in its leader, death of the leader means death of the movement.
Patricia Hill Collins
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick -
This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
Ed Westwick -
In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth -
It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.
Wanda Sykes -
Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
Edgar Allan Poe
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However, I was a restaurant critic at Chicago magazine before I worked at Esquire, and I've been a really enthusiastic home cook for a long time. It's just something I'm passionate about.
Ted Allen -
I loved that it was about human relationships and then it was a mystery without falling into the trap of a thriller per se, because it pulled you in through people rather than through events or effects.
Barbara Hershey -
'The Buccaneers' was an Edith Wharton novel, and she never finished it, and a screenwriter adapted it for television.
James Frain -
Both Miss Lavinia and Miss Clarissa had a superstition, however, that he would have declared his passion, if he had not been cut short in his youth (at about sixty) by over-drinking his constitution, and over-doing an attempt to set it right again by swilling Bath water.
Charles Dickens -
I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it.
Yoko Ono -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra