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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Educational legislation nowadays is largely in the hands of illiterate people, and the illiterate will take good care that their illiteracy is not made a reproach on them.
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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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As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation.
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The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
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There I am, chain-smoking and watching YouTube videos in my bedroom at 6 A.M. when a spoken-word video comes on the screen. I knew I had to do it: that it was another part of me that needed to be explored.
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Grant, if we edited Fortran, I assume that you'd put a column thing in there.
