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.
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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.
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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.
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I was very involved with school by the time I was 15 and wasn't working much as a model.
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It took me years of attempts and failed drafts before I finally wrote the elegies I needed to write.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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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.
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I just want to say, 'Go work! It doesn't matter what it is. Work begets work. Just go!'
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You grow up a lot on set, but it doesn't change you.
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Anyone who wants to be part of the political process should adopt values that are compatible with democracy.
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Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
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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.
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Worry about going out there and making your own legacy.
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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.
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A diplomatic peace is not yet the real peace. It is an essential step in the peace process leading towards a real peace.
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
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'Is it different, then, for men and for women?''What isn’t, dearie?'
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Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.
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My campaign is based upon the proposition that the answers to the problems which currently plague our cities, our towns, and our homes, are not to be found in the decisions in Washington. They are instead to be found in the hearts, minds and resources of our own people here at home.
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I'm a big believer in minimalism. Not materialist minimalism, although that's part of it, but time and energy minimalism. The body is given only so much energy a day.
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You don't have money, you can't do science. But that's part of the price that I pay.
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I kind of call myself an atheist, I suppose - although quite a spiritual atheist, I hope.
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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
