Ken Thompson Quotes
The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
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Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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Sometimes you resent the people you love and need the most. Love is so fascinating in all its forms, and I think everyone who has ever been a mother will relate to this.
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
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Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.
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At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.
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I think that life in Israel is sometimes bigger than the movies.
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I just keep working out. You can't stop. Everyone thinks there's a trick, but there's no trick! The trick is, you have to be consistent.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.
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If anyone tells you it's impossible to be fabulous and smart and make a ton of money using math, well, they can just get in line behind you - and kiss your math.
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My mom had me when she was 19 or 20. And my father was 22 or something. They were working on whatever they could, both of them aiming to be actors in theater.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you, you will be neither successful nor happy.
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I work strategically with my management team to make all decisions.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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I've never been sick a day in my life. I'm healthy, and I think I can make other people healthy, too.
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Disagreeing with the fervent patriotism of the Confederates: "I think it's hard winning a war with words, gentlemen. . . . I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. . . . All we've got is cotton and slaves, and arrogance." "I seem to be spoiling everybody's brandy and cigars and dreams of victory."
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On Saturday afternoons when all the things are done in the house and there's no real work to be done, I play Bach and Chopin and turn it up real loudly and get a good bottle of chardonnay and sit out on my deck and look out at the garden.
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Textbooks describe economics as the study of the allocation of scarce resources. That definition may be the 'what,' but it certainly is not the 'why.'
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Sometimes, you just feel like you're just surviving for parts of the season.
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The average gardener probably knows little about what is going on in his or her garden.
