Ken Thompson Quotes
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The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.
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We should have completed the fight in Afghanistan instead of starting a new war in Iraq.
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I wasn't in shape at all before I decided to do boxing. I wasn't an athlete. Before boxing, I would go to the gym for a month and stop.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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LazyTown' is not a TV property, but a lifestyle brand for children.
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Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.
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It's not an easy task to match Charan. He is really a good dancer, and he comes straight to the sets without rehearsals.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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I have a biology degree, okay?
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I was always - maybe stupidly so - very confident.
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Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.
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I'm very happy with my life and career, but I do find myself having serious attacks of nostalgia, and I don't quite know why. Even though I've got to travel the world and do amazing things, I still want to go back to my teenage years and change little aspects of it. It's strange, but it does continue to bug me.
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You can hype a questionable product for a little while, but you'll never build an enduring business.
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The government is determined to bring the program back on track, and proceed with the privatizations.
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I'd watch old movies with Judy Garland, Shirley Temple and Bette Davis and long to be part of that glamorous world. A lot of that glamour is gone now. In my own small way, I hope I'm bringing some of it back. But it would be great if I could inspire women to dress up.
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I've been a regular customer at CVS Pharmacy, the country's second-largest drugstore chain, for 20 years. I've spent a small fortune there over that span, visiting several times a week to pick up everything from milk to toothpaste to prescriptions.
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Novels have much more space than short stories, which gives you more leeway with the number of characters you can include. Even 'furniture' characters can be described and given speaking parts to develop background or atmosphere.
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
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Malebranche teaches that we see all things in God himself. This is certainly equivalent to explaining something unknown by something even more unknown. Moreover, according to him, we see not only all things in God, but God is also the sole activity therein, so that physical causes are so only apparently; they are merely occasional causes. And so here we have essentially the pantheism of Spinoza who appears to have learned more from Malebranche than from Descartes.
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Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith.
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Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.
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'Gigabit' seems to mean 600 megabits. It's a VAX gigabit.
