Ken Thompson Quotes
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I sometimes read in a gossip column that I was at a party when I was in Europe at the time. It sometimes feels I've got a Doppelganger somewhere.
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If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like reading someone's notebook. A record. Of a place, beauty, difficulty. A familiar daily struggle.
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We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
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Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
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I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
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One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.
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Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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I'm the kind of person who needs to feel like everything happens for a reason. When you date a guy and it goes badly, that's horrible. But if you can write a song about it, then it was worth it.
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I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
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Power to the peaceful.
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Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.
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I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That's when you've got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing's a joke to me. I don't feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.
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I love the funny and sweet moments I have with my cats, Jake and Frank, so I'm honored to be celebrating these moments at the Catdance Film Festival.
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No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
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..he wanted her. And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.
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But you have to take all of those things, you have to take into consideration the paths, the roadways, how much cloud cover there is, how much foliage cover there is, whether there are streams, all of that comes into play.
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To keep that absolute freedom we cannot be obliged to anyone.
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We must continue to fight for funding for health technologies so that they can continue to do what they do best - save lives - but also because they confer a real benefit to America's economy.
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That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
