Ken Thompson Quotes
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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The science of life is changing hearts and minds.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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Incommensurables cannot be compared.
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My son, George, has been a bad, bad boy! Right, George?
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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'Shameless' was such a weird time in my life because I never really experienced any kind of role that put me that much in the spotlight before.
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Some day, I'd like to be known as the queen of containerboards.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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We grew up listening to music like that: we grew up on the snap music, grew up off the trap music, grew up on all the South sound.
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I turn people into human beings by not making them into gods.
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Using the power you derive from the discovery of the truth about racism in South Africa, you will help us to remake our part of the world into a corner of the globe on which all - of which all of humanity can be proud.
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I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things that mattered more than our business.
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The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?
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If you want better behavior from bankers, then make their financial incentives more like those in the hedge-fund world - where managers have 'skin in the game,' and their net worth is tied to their long-term performance.
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Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.
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I stopped doing romantic comedies. I just stopped. They're terrible. They're bad. They're not funny and so they shouldn't be a romantic comedy because most of the time they're not romantic. They shouldn't be called romantic comedy.
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So maybe I can go back to being a Gardeners' World addict again.
