“ The manuals we got from IBM would show examples of programs and I knew I could do a heck of a lot better than that. So I thought I might have some talent. ”
- Donald Knuth- Copy
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“ This is an example of the resiliency of the market, of what has driven stocks higher for months. You've got PPI, GE, not so great, but they find a positive angle and take the market up. ”
- John Hughes- Copy
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“ The diffusion of taste is not the same thing as the improvement of taste. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
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“ I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate. ”
- Elbert Hubbard- Copy
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“ The military said we'll be able to confirm Saddam is dead with DNA testing. Apparently we have a sample of his DNA. So Monica Lewinsky is working for the CIA? ”
- Jay Leno- Copy
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“ I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it. ”
- Rodney Dangerfield- Copy
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“ The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. ”
- Walter Lippmann- Copy
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“ Moderation. Small helpings. Sample a little bit of everything. These are the secrets of happiness and good health. ”
- Julia Child- Copy
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“ All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it — an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view. ”
- Peter Conrad- Copy
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“ We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin… ”
- Alfred Hitchcock- Copy
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“ Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation, a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history. ”
- Octavio Paz- Copy
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“ This was totally influenced by me and the direction that I am writing about and the stuff that I am writing about. There is just no way that you can be as intense as what I have been through in my life over a drum beat machine, sample, or loop; it's just not going to happen. ”
- Vanilla Ice- Copy
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