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
  • Think
  • Player
  • Confidence

• 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
  • Kind
  • Hip Hop
  • DJ

• 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
  • Work
  • Respect
  • Training

• I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Time
  • School
  • Model

• It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Me
  • Years
  • Drafts

• My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • Parents
  • Brother
  • Lawyer

• 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
  • Style
  • Suits
  • Stick

• I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'

  

  Laura Linney
  • Work
  • Want
  • Matter

• You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • Up
  • Change
  • Grow

• Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.

  

  Najib Razak
  • Political
  • Democracy
  • Values

• Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • Funny
  • Red
  • Blue

• 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
  • Understand
  • Young
  • Social

• Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Worry
  • Legacy
  • Going

• 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
  • People
  • Men
  • Business

• 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
  • Real
  • Peace
  • Process

• Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Age
  • Take
  • Tragic

• 'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reading

• I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• I cannot smell mothballs because it's so difficult to get their little legs apart.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Difficult
  • Littles
  • Smell

• A woman with organizing skills can run a construction company without ever picking up a hammer and nail.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Up
  • Woman
  • Skills

• With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

  

  David Limbaugh
  • Free
  • Growth
  • Fire

• In the private sector, companies have experts running all over the place figuring out the details of how to solve particular problems, and then they share them with the rest of the organization. But in global health, global education, or global development, that’s been really difficult to do.

  

  Jim Yong Kim
  • Education
  • Running
  • Health

• Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.

  

  Ken Thompson