Ken Thompson Quotes
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Ken Thompson
Quotes to Explore
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Writing about the future and the past is less a way of dramatizing change than of showing, by way of contrast, what abides.
Walter Kirn
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I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
Patrick Stewart
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Frank Capra, Hollywood's Horatio Alger, lights with more cinematic know-how and zeal than any other director to convince movie audiences that American life is exactly like the 'Saturday Evening Post' covers of Norman Rockwell. 'It's A Wonderful Life,' the latest example of Capracorn, shows his art at a hysterical pitch.
Manny Farber
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I love to cook. I love having friends over and family. I am definitely a feeder - I feed everybody. I am jumping around the kitchen like a crazy woman.
Imelda May
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
Fanny Kemble
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There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
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It's surreal to think that I own this beautiful island. It doesn't feel like anyone can own Lanai. What it feels like to me is this really cool 21st-century engineering project, where I get to work with the people of Lanai to create a prosperous and sustainable Eden in the Pacific.
Larry Ellison
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If you're happy with who you are, that's going to show, and you don't have to apologize for anything.
Kassie DePaiva
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The few times in my life where I had four or five movies in a row, it was a nightmare. I felt trapped. I felt like my life was planned for a year and a half or two years, and it was terrible. Most of the time, everything collapsed.
Vincent Cassel
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If you're the type of person who has to fulfill your dreams, you've gotta be resourceful to make sure you can do it. I came out to California when I was 21, thinking my New York credentials would take me all the way. I came back home a year later all dejected and a failure.
Vin Diesel
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There's nothing wrong with doing sequels, they're just easier to sell.
J. J. Abrams
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Anything you can do to get more people to come to your live shows is good, because that's where you can really do what you do. Everyone's on the same page, and you don't have to win strangers over as much.
Natasha Leggero
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Much of the profession is empirically bankrupt because it is no longer taught economic history.
Charles P. Kindleberger
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Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée:C'est Vénus tout entière à sa proie attachée.
Jean Racine
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Happy, happy, happy pair!None but the brave, None but the brave,None but the brave deserves the fair.
John Dryden
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I had an agent once who wanted me to make many more movies. I said, 'I can't. I can only do one a year, if that. I have children, young children.' And he said, 'Well, I guess you won't be a superstar.' And I said, 'Well, I guess not.'
Eva Marie Saint
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A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
Earl Wilson
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No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
Ken Thompson
