Ken Thompson Quotes

In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

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• I have a song about being in love. I have a song about being supportive. There's inspiring ones, and there's some that show a little bit more fun and daring. It really is a range of who I am.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Fun
  • Song
  • Inspiring

• My work involves online dating, but I believe almost every behavior exhibited online has an offline corollary. Really, the medium doesn't change human nature.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Nature

• We had something very special in the Faces. We were blessed to have the fun we had.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Fun
  • Blessed
  • Faces

• I definitely want to get out of tennis and try something completely different.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Different
  • Want
  • Try

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• That's always the trick with the sequels, is how much do you repeat from the first one. Because we all get bummed out when you go see a sequel and it's beat for beat.

  

  Adam McKay
  • You
  • See
  • Go

• I have wandered over Europe, have rambled to Iceland, climbed the Alps, been for some years lodged among the marshes of Essex - yet nothing that I have seen has quenched in me the longing after the fresh air, and love of the wild scenery, of Dartmoor.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Love
  • Me
  • Air

• Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Gay

• In 2009, I served as AARP's Ambassador of Caregiving. With a producer and cameraman, I traveled the country for months, interviewing hundreds of caregivers.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Country
  • Ambassador

• It's not my goal to be a famous actor.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Goal
  • Famous
  • Actor

• The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Way
  • Reason

• It is up to God to reveal a religion, but up to us to understand and realise it.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Up
  • God
  • Religion

• I think for a lot of amateurs, their alignment is always out.

  

  Karrie Webb
  • Think
  • Always
  • Alignment

• I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Life
  • Story
  • Trials

• Too often, campaigns are all flash and no substance.

  

  Gary Herbert
  • Often
  • Substance
  • Flash

• The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Law
  • Government
  • Foundation

• You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Believe
  • You
  • Same

• I'm not a person who embraces challenges. I run from challenges. I break world records running from challenges.

  

  Larry David
  • World
  • Running
  • Challenges

• 'Game of Thrones' was the first fantasy thing I've done, and like a lot of people who enjoy the show watching it, I didn't expect to respond to that world, but when I started doing it, I really started to love it, started to realize that some of the things I'm naturally drawn to.

  

  Alan Taylor
  • People
  • World
  • Done

• I guess I'm a bit of a tomboy and can be quite resourceful.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Guess
  • Tomboy
  • Resourceful

• I'd also say having Jack's son Chris living with us from his 13th year on helped in raising Rick.

  

  Marie Windsor
  • Son

• Shortly after my dad died, my mom figured that if I could do a few commercials, I'd get a college fund.

  

  Liam Aiken
  • Dad
  • College
  • Mom

• In general, in the matters that relate to theology or behavior, people to one another, Paul was obviously biblically correct. But when he said that women should always cover their hair or that women should not teach men, women should not have leadership positions in the church, women should not speak in the church, I don't' think that those writings of Paul can be extracted by themselves to stand alone. Also, Paul said that women should be subservient to their husbands but if you read a couple of verses down it says husbands should treat their wives as equals.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Behavior
  • Theology
  • Paul

• In college, before video games, we would amuse ourselves by posing programming exercises.

  

  Ken Thompson
  • College