Ken Thompson Quotes
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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.
Kate Williams -
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.
Francesca Annis -
Great personal style is an extreme curiosity about yourself.
Iris Apfel -
Put your consumers in focus, and listen to what they're actually saying, not what they tell you.
Daniel Ek -
I never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
Dana Perino -
I was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2004.
Laura Ziskin
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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.
Salman Khurshid -
I love big, bold, truthful theater - the tradition of Victorian theater.
Harold Prince -
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.
Taslima Nasrin -
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.
Yves Behar -
My dream is to have a bed of my own in Los Angeles and one in Sweden.
Zara Larsson -
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.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
Barack Obama -
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.
L. Frank Baum -
They're all crazy. They're all crazy except you and me. Sometimes I have me doubts about you.
Garrett Fort -
One should tell oneself how fruitful misunderstandings are. One shouldn’t despise them. One of the wisest people was a collector of misunderstandings.
Elias Canetti -
The reason I made my stage name Kali Uchis is because it's still me in the sense that, my dad called me 'Kali Uchis' my whole life. It's still something I've been called since I was a baby. It's still me.
Kali Uchis -
Two people will never be President in my lifetime. A woman and a black.
Charles Evers
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… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.
Thomas Harris -
My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
Edie Brickell -
Boswell is pleasant and gay, For frolic by nature designed; He heedlessly rattles away When company is to his mind.
James Boswell -
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hi, this is Ken. What's the root password?
Ken Thompson