Ken Thompson Quotes
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Feeling has as much to say as the words do. You can have the greatest words in the world and if they're not believable, they don't strike a chord and they're not said convincingly, it's not a great song.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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But Roy Rockwood, it was science fiction for the sake of science fiction.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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I know that a good many champions have entertained the thought that the more they discourage youngsters, the longer they would reign. However, this theory never impressed me, and I always made it a point to give youths the benefit of my experience in bicycle racing.
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As an actor, I'm always up for exploring and trying new things.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.
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The philosophy of the school was quite simple - the bright boys specialised in Latin, the not so bright in science and the rest managed with geography or the like.
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We've been saying Putin is a dictator for years who doesn't care about the law.
Garry Kasparov -
The truth is, I'm just a rough old New Zealander who has enjoyed many challenges in his life.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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It's kind of fun to be sexy.
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I'm slightly unsure as to what my goal is. I just keep doing jobs.
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I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better.
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My own personal, moral, spiritual, religious, etc. beliefs don't oppose same-gender marriage.
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Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.
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Flattery is counterfeit, and like counterfeit money, it will eventually get you into trouble if you pass it to someone else.
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If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.
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Adventure should be 80 percent 'I think this is manageable,' but it's good to have that last 20 percent where you're right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
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He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or burdensome; a pleasure or a toil. Say that his power lies in words and looks; in things so slight and insignificant that it is impossible to add and count 'em up: what then? The happiness he gives, is quite as great as if it cost a fortune.
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grep was a private command of mine for quite a while before i made it public.
