Ken Thompson Quotes
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I was riding my mountain bike in Colorado, and I met a dog who reminded me so much of my very first dog, in the way she interacted with me, looked at me, and wagged her tail, that I rode away convinced I'd just very possibly met the reincarnated version of my long lost friend.
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Jose Mourinho is a big star... he's cool.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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When you fully understand the situation, it is worse than you think.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
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Can you imagine me coming to this country to blow up a post office? I told them, 'My bombs are my books.'
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Als vorübergehender Zustand ist der Skeptizismus logische Insurrektion; als System ist er Anarchie. Skeptische Methode wäre also ungefähr wie insurgente Regierung.
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I wasn't brought up with any religion, actually.
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In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
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My mother always used to say when picking up a product, 'Would you give this to the Duchess of Windsor?' Well, that's lovely. But the Duchess of Windsor is dead.
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It's an intangible thing, this thing we call talent, especially if we're in a position to teach and mentor others.
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Where I grew up was a place called Salford, which was the industrial heartland of Manchester. And where I lived in Salford, I could walk to the center of Manchester within about 20 minutes. So I lived really close to the center.
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Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
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Eternity eludes us, even as a thought.
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I'm a little hesitant to make my characters sentimental or to risk having the work labeled sentimental. It's something that I resist as a reader, and I don't resist it in life. I'm not an unmoved person by any stretch, but I think I don't want, I guess, to indulge those kinds of things sometimes in fiction. I can't tell you why exactly.
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We have promised to support India in its international aspiration. We have agreed to set up a working group on technology.
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Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
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I've got loads of ideas, but I need some structure in my life. I need a mission.
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I think that when I did the Methods Of Mayhem record, some of the hip-hop stuff probably freaked a lot of Motley Crue fans out.
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The Admiral ordered the lord to be given some things, and he and all his folk rested in great contentment, believing truly that they had come from the sky, and to see the Christians they held themselves very fortunate.
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If you want to go somewhere, goto is the best way to get there.
