Ken Thompson Quotes
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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Boys, I'm one of those umpires that misses 'em every once in a while so if it's close, you'd better hit it.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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When it comes to college education, American families are paying more and getting less.
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Against barbarity, poetry can resist only by confirming its attachment to human fragility like a blade of grass growing on a wall while armies march by.
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Our competition for American business is no longer in the next county or the next state, it's around the world.
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Hussein has chosen to spend his money on building weapons of mass destruction and palaces for his cronies.
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All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognized the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.
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'The difference between how you look and how you see yourself is enough to kill most people. And maybe the reason vampires don’t die is because they can never see themselves in photographs or mirrors.' p144
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Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift.
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I love short track. I competed in short track, I was a world champion in 1986 but at that point in time it wasn't in the Olympic Games so I moved into long track. Short track is a blast to skate and it's a blast to watch.
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What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars and pirates. But what you do relate to is the emotions that the characters feel.
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I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.
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Conservatism should be a reality-based philosophy, and the movement will be better off if it recognizes that facts really do matter.
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For me, as a woman in one of the less diverse fields - electrical engineering, which is what I studied in college - it was hard to persist and really build a career. Some of the things I experienced were really scary, and they weren't experiences that I wanted for my daughter.
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Pregnancy is a time for women to feel more connected with their bodies, and yet often the opposite occurs.
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Deism is the belief that nature and God are one and the same thing. If you study nature, you're getting insights about God.
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As an actor, when you want to capture the spirit of the character, and the character exists in all of the iterations slightly differently, you work towards getting a sense of what the creators wanted to do, you know? Then, you work off of that.
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One reason why in Hollywood we are so often inventing heroes is that real heroes are vexing.
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Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.
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You can have computer sights of anything you like, but I think you have to go to the enemy on the shortest distance and knock him down from point-blank range. You'll get him from in close. At long distance, it's questionable.
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Irish mythology is gorgeous, and so are the fairies, but they are very misrepresented in the U.K. They are not little creatures with wings.
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I am a programmer.
