Ken Thompson Quotes

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• Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Mind
  • War
  • Peace

• I am a fashion designer, so I guess that makes me an overpacker.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Fashion
  • Designer
  • Overpacker

• Net-a-Porter offers catwalk fashion and trend-driven shopping, but for Mr Porter, while fashion is still important, style is key.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Important
  • Fashion
  • Style

• I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Men
  • Movies
  • Tired

• Sometimes you're going to have someone on your team who's just not comfortable with being open. You have to ask yourself, 'Is this person going to allow us to be a real team?' Maybe they're not right for your team. You have to be willing to lose someone sometimes.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Real
  • Team
  • Sometimes

• I hate to sound this way but, 'Why me? Why me with dementia?'

  

  Pat Summitt
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Me

• I feel like somehow I'm living my life mentally in reverse. It's taken me to my 30s to feel relaxed and comfortable in my skin. I think I'm going to be dancing on tables when I'm 50. I really hope I am.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Life
  • Comfortable
  • Skin

• The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Same
  • Youth

• I am always surprised people are surprised that people haven't read things.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Read
  • Surprised

• The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Men
  • Happy

• I speak fluent Hebrew and even dream in Hebrew when we visit there, once or twice a year.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dream
  • Speak
  • Year

• When politicians seek to restrict political speech, it is invariably to protect their own incumbency and avoid having to defend their policies in the marketplace of ideas.

  

  Ted Olson
  • Political
  • Ideas
  • Speech

• Parents today are under a lot of stress, sometimes working two jobs just to make ends meet. They're trying to find day care for their kids and elder care for their own parents. The Federal Government shouldn't add to their worries by not living up to its obligations.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Kids

• In the end it doesn't matter what you do.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • You
  • End
  • Matter

• A sportswriter's life means never sitting with your wife or family at the games. Still working after everyone has gone to the party... Digging beneath a coach's lies, not to forget those of athletic directors and general managers and owners of pro teams. Keeping a confidence. Risking it.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Family
  • Party

• It must be nice for today's hitters when you don't have to worry about being thrown at. It's a whole different deal. When I played, getting knocked down was an accepted part of the game.

  

  Harmon Killebrew
  • Different
  • Game
  • Today

• I actually used to make these little plays. I would stand there, and I would act out where I was dying or something. I would make them sit there and watch all my plays. I would be talking in gibberish language, like I was talking in a different language, and my parents would be like, 'Oh that was great!' and I'd be like, 'Wait, it's not done!'

  

  Madison Davenport
  • Great
  • Different
  • Done

• The successful establishment of a buffer zone around Fort Carson will provide an example for other bases around the country as we seek to protect the training mission of the U.S. military while preserving critical habitats on our ranges.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Training
  • Military

• I'd love to work in America, some of my favourite films come from America.

  

  Cillian Murphy
  • Work
  • America

• Slater soaks into the mind as water into low and marshy places, where it becomes stagnant and offensive.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Offensive
  • Soaks

• It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Wish
  • Passion
  • Duty

• Ryan Hansen is my favorite person on the planet. He is my discovery. I'm so proud of him.

  

  Rob Thomas Matchbox Twenty
  • Proud

• Is Europe going to be breaking? I don't think so. I think the euro will stay. I think at the end of the day Europeans will find the solutions in order to hold Europe together.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• I wanted to avoid, special IO for terminals.

  

  Ken Thompson