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 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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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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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
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They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you.
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One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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The poignancy which all beauty has.
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We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
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I love finding out-of-the-box inspirations and blending them with what I've done in the past. And when I started to experiment with genres, it didn't sound forced. Maybe that's because it's all music that I listened to growing up, and it's all music that I love.
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Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password?
