Ken Thompson Quotes
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If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.
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Eighteenth-century matrons would have never have dreamed of appointing a redhaired wet nurse for their precious offspring - redheads passed on their horrible characters through their milk.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
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Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
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I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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I have done my time living on the run. I'm British and I want to come home.
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We wish Pakistan both stability and security; we expect them to understand our legitimate concerns of preventing people from using its soil to inflict problem in India.
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I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
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I have had fatwas issued against me, some three in Bangladesh and another five in India. I will not be cowed by these threats and shall fight for my rights.
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Everything has yet to be invented. I never say 'green' - I say 'greener.' It's greener simply because this is a continuum of change, improvement and discovery.
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I think the rejection - if it's taken in the right spirit, it can make you a better person. And I think that is what I've always striven for. If one thing didn't work out, a project or anything, it doesn't mean that I lose my own confidence. In fact, I give myself a lot more confidence and opportunities.
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My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
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I definitely believe that you are drawn to certain things for inexplicable reasons, but in a very powerful way. I don't know what it is exactly, but I know that things happen kind of miraculously sometimes, and so I'm willing to believe that there's something pretty magical out there.
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It was the students who entered kindergarten in 2011 who are - and I am weighing my words carefully - the sacrificed generation. It is they who have paid a high price for the politics of yesterday - that is to say, the government of Mr. Fillon.
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Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
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True friendship is sitting together in silence and feeling like it was the best conversation you've ever had.
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So every single day, I found something to be grateful for and that's a powerful lesson.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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I'm not really looking for theater work. But if somebody approaches me with enthusiasm, I might respond.
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The core problem in our society is political correctness.
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Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password?
