Ken Thompson Quotes

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• I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Action

• Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.

  

  Sallust
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Kings

• I have made enough money to secure my family and that is all I care about.

  

  Natalia Vodianova
  • Family
  • Money
  • Care

• I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Years

• To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.

  

  Bebe Moore Campbell
  • Writing
  • Point
  • Entertain

• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Soul
  • Moments
  • Thoughts

• Never judge a person if you don't know him.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • You
  • Know
  • Judge

• For the Negro, Andrew Johnson did less than nothing when once he realized that the chief beneficiary of labor and economic reform in the South would be freedmen. His inability to picture Negroes as men made him oppose efforts to give them land; oppose national efforts to educate them; and above all things, oppose their rights to vote.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • Picture
  • Vote

• Orange blossom water would make a magical addition to your store cupboard.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Water
  • Blossom
  • Orange

• The mere fact that so many continue to rise, year after year, out of just such conditions as you may think are fatal to your advancement, ought to convince you that you also can conquer your environment.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • May
  • Environment
  • Year

• We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • World
  • Fear
  • Scary

• I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.

  

  Ursula Andress
  • Live
  • Family
  • Switzerland

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• When we first started our internet company, 'China Pages', in 1995, and we were just making home pages for a lot of Chinese companies. We went to the big owners, the big companies, and they didn't want to do it. We go to state-owned companies, and they didn't want to do it. Only the small and medium companies really want to do it.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Home
  • Small
  • Internet

• You have to be a crazy guy and a little eccentric to be very successful.

  

  Tadashi Yanai
  • Guy
  • You
  • Crazy

• It seems that no two people came to this specialized area of work via the exact same route.

  

  Randy West
  • People
  • Work
  • Same

• When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Myself
  • Forever

• I'm trying to have some longevity in this business. If that means not working for a while and just picking the right job, so be it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Trying
  • Business
  • Job

• New York ladies all look immaculate.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Look
  • New
  • New York

• We now know that sex is complicated enough that we have to admit nature doesn't draw the line for us between male and female, or between male and intersex and female and intersex; we actually draw that line on nature.

  

  Alice Dreger
  • Nature
  • Sex

• The Pork Marketing Board worked with advertising and marketing firms to position the pig as a sort of four-legged chicken - a healthy part of any low-fat lifestyle. The Other White Meat campaign launched in 1987 and was so successful at selling lean pork cuts, it actually hurt the rest of the pig.

  

  David Sax
  • Rest
  • Hurt
  • Marketing

• The artivist (artist +activist) uses her artistic talents to fight and struggle against injustice and oppression – by any medium necessary. The artivist merges commitment to freedom and justice with the pen, the lens, the brush, the voice, the body, and the imagination. The artivist knows that to make an observation is to have an obligation.

  

  M. K. Asante
  • Freedom
  • Fighting
  • Justice

• I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'

  

  David Eigenberg
  • Good
  • Work
  • Job

• You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself.

  

  Ken Thompson
  • Trust