Ken Thompson Quotes

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

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• 'Frontline' started doing digital content in 1995. We started streaming our films in 2000.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
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• The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

  

  Barnaby C. Keeney
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• I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.

  

  Laura Harrier
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• I love cycling.

  

  Natalie Dormer
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• People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.

  

  Kate Upton
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• My responsibility is to follow the law.

  

  Karen Handel
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• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
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• There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.

  

  Warren Buffett
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• I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

  

  Barbara Bush
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• Originally, I was in both software and in online computing. The first innovation really was sort of at that time that we're marrying the telephone and the computer so that people wouldn't have to drive to the computer center. We didn't have $1,000 computers.

  

  Sam Wyly
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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.

  

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• Contemporary architects tend to impose modernity on something. There is a certain concern for history, but it's not very deep.

  

  I. M. Pei
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• One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

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• I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.

  

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• You know, real life doesn't just suddenly resolve itself. You have to keep working at it. Democracy, marriage, friendship. You can't just say, 'She's my best friend.' That's not a given, it's a process.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

  

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• I'll see something, and I'll go, 'Oh, wow, that's interesting,' because really, comedy comes from the truth.

  

  Loni Love
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• To be completely honest, I just like whatever tells a good story. Put me in whatever setting, scenario, genre. If you're telling a good story, it's great and it's fun to get caught up in.

  

  Drew Roy
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• It is not just the Great Works of mankind that make a culture. It is the daily things, like what people eat and how they serve it.

  

  Laurie Colwin
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• The idea that an individual can find God is terribly self-centered. It is like a wave thinking it can find the sea.

  

  John Templeton
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• I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job, but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work, but were relevant to gardening.

  

  Ken Thompson
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