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.
Candace Bushnell -
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.
Fanny Howe -
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.
Fay Weldon -
The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
Pat Conroy -
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
Parker Stevenson -
When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
Natalie Portman
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Egypt has suffered more ordeals than the other countries to get where it is.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Godzilla's a monster for the '90s. He's been working out.
Hank Azaria -
I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought I'd regret it if I didn't act.
Kate Ashfield -
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.
Rachel Nichols -
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.
Harry Browne -
The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
Sam Altman
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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.
Taylor Swift -
I'm anti-cheese in a salad.
Larry David -
Power to the peaceful.
Vanessa Hudgens -
Grime reminds me that swimming is very gladiatorial.
Adam Peaty -
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.
Hank Aaron -
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.
Hannah Simone
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Having been an actor in Hollywood for a certain amount of time, I always felt a pressure to be sort of a neutral person. 'Don't do anything to your hair. Don't tell them your age. Don't tell them you're gay. Don't tell them anything that could limit you, specify you as a person.' I always hated that, actually moved out of L.A. because of that.
John Cameron Mitchell -
I hike and make sure everything I eat is organic.
Janice Dickinson -
All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive.
Niall Ferguson -
There is all the difference in the world between departure from recognised rules by one who has learned to obey them, and neglect of them through want of training or want of skill or want of understanding. Before you can be eccentric you must know where the circle is.
Ellen Terry -
You live your life day by day and find ways to get through it. You grow up through things that are challenging and you find the joy. You realize there are so many people that have it much worse and remind yourself. I have been very blessed.
Kelly Rutherford -
That brings me to Dennis Ritchie. Our collaboration has been a thing of beauty.
Ken Thompson