Ken Thompson Quotes
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
Gabriela Sabatini -
You have the core hip-hop, which would just be beats and breaks, more something like what you hear with DJ Premier. Then you get into the more highly produced hip-hop, which is something like what DJ Khaled does. But at some point, it starts to get kind of pop.
Ice T -
When I went to Juventus, I was young, but in training, I had legends like Fabio Cannavaro and Lilian Thuram marking me. I had to work hard to get my respect.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
Rachael Leigh Cook -
It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
Natasha Trethewey -
My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
Gabriel Macht
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I think everyone evolves over the years, but I have always had the silhouette that I know suits me. I am never going to wear a frothy, poufy thing that sticks out because I have found a style that works for me, and I stick with it.
L'Wren Scott -
I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
Laura Linney -
You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
Dakota Blue Richards -
Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
Najib Razak -
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
Oscar Levant -
Flannery O'Connor was a revelation for me. When I read her, I was very young, and I didn't understand what she was doing. I didn't see any of the Catholicism or any of the social stuff.
Karin Slaughter
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Because I was in the business of translating the 'X-Men' from the very successful comics, and taking the most popular book of the 20th century in 'The Lord of the Rings,' and making it into three movies, I hope people realize I wouldn't get involved in anything I didn't think was really going to be worth their while.
Ian Mckellen -
A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
Yitzhak Rabin -
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
D. H. Lawrence -
'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
Ursula K. Le Guin -
Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
C. S. Lewis
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Rod privately suspected the Scots studied their speech off duty so they’d be unintelligible to the rest of humanity.
Larry Niven -
There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so.'
Mark Twain -
If I hadn't become a celebrity, I'd probably be an alcoholic.
Paul Lynde -
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
Katharine Tynan -
Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
Ken Thompson