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Obviously, the person who had most influence on my career was Ken Thompson. -- Dennis Ritchie
Kids don't plan to play. They don't go: 'Barbie, Ken, you ready to play? It's gonna be a three-act.' -- Lynda Barry
It depends who the director is you know, I mean Ken Loach for instance. I've done up to 32 takes with him. -- Robert Carlyle
Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army. -- Charles Duhigg
I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll. -- David Byrne
TV tends to look for the living equivalents of squeaky-clean Kens and Barbies, but with my dial I'm more like Ken's dirty old uncle. -- John C. McGinley
To work with Ken Branagh was amazing; it was always a dream of mine to work with a man as creative and talented as that. -- Josh Dallas
He's not anybody's clone. He's Ken Griffey, Jr. As long as he continues to remind himself of that, he's going to be a very good player. -- Chili Davis
Ken Lay, the disgraced former chairman of Enron, found a way to escape his legal problems: He died after being convicted of fraud and conspiracy charges. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Ken Lay has, does and will continue to accept responsibility for the fall of Enron. He was the man at the controls. But failure is not a crime. -- Michael Ramsey
In the old days, when Muhammad Ali was fighting Ken Norton, Joe Frazier and George Foreman, there was a lot of excitement in the heavyweight division, I have to admit it. -- Wladimir Klitschko
No matter what you do, people are gonna try to emulate you. Whether it's a dunk by Michael Jordan or a swing by Ken Griffey Jr., kids are doing the same things. -- Curtis Granderson
I'm excited to join my brother-in-law Ken Thomson every Tuesday night on SiriusXM to recap all of the awesome NFL action, and to find out what in the Wylde world of sports is going on. -- Zakk Wylde
Ken, my husband, just smelled like he belonged to me. I'm not talking about hygiene. I'm talking about when you hug him, he either feels like a member of your tribe or not. It's their scent. -- Erica Jong
I look a little bit like Barbie and talk a little bit like Ken. It's easier for me to sit in the middle of the boys' club than to be surrounded by people concerned about getting their hair and nails done. -- Diane Farr
I was fortunate to play for Pete Rose and have teammates like Ken Griffey Sr., Tony Perez and Dave Concepcion. I grew up in the game with a mature attitude. I've always known it was better to be seen and not heard. -- Eric Davis
When Jack Swagger copies my Ankle Lock and Randy Orton does my Angle Slam, it's disrespectful. I didn't come up with the Ankle Lock; Ken Shamrock came up with the Ankle Lock, but I waited until he retired to do the Ankle Lock. -- Kurt Angle
I got that nickname my first spring training camp with the Expos in 1974. Tim Foli, Ken Singleton and Mike Jorgensen started calling me 'Kid' because I was trying to win every sprint. I was trying to hit every pitch out of the park. -- Gary Carter
It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good. -- Anthony Hopkins
I named all my sons George Edward Foreman. And I tell people, 'If you're going to get hit as many times as I've been hit by Mohammad Ali, Joe Frazier, Ken Norton, Evander Holyfield - you're not going to remember many names.' -- George Foreman
In '57, I got a job at the Blue Angel nightclub, and a gentleman named Ken Welch wrote all my material for me. I lived at a place called the Rehearsal Club that was actually the basis for a play called Stage Door. -- Carol Burnett
President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had Ken O'Donnell. He was ready to protect this nation, but he was not ready for a military solution just because it was being rammed down his throat. -- Kevin Costner
I Like Gay Men, Right Ken? -- Eminem
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Ken Jeong might be my biggest fan. -- Gillian Jacobs
You know what Ken Lay had for breakfast this morning? Shredded Wheat -- Jay Leno
I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson. -- Wanda Jackson
I wouldn't vote for Ken Livingstone if he were running for mayor of Toytown. -- Arthur Scargill
If anybody is a master at improvisation, it would be Ken Jeong. He is hilarious. -- Anneliese van der Pol
Ken Shamrock is the World's Most Dangerous Man? Maybe behind the wheel of a car. -- Don Frye
Being married is kind of like being a Ken-doll; you don't get to dress yourself anymore. -- Grover Norquist
I was studying to be a legal secretary when I was called to audition for 'Ken.' -- Kierston Wareing
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. -- Pete Sampras
I ask questions, and a large part of my life has been spent asking questions of Ken Livingstone. -- Trevor Phillips
Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret. -- Laurie Beth Jones
Ken Patera was the strongest man in the world, but he was probably the most gentleman in the ring. -- Bob Backlund
The adorably rubber-faced Ken James Stewart is jumping ship from the Shaw Festival after five years to play Charlie Brown -- Richard Ouzounian
When you have Ken Jeong naked next to you when you're doing a scene, it's pretty easy to stay loose. -- Danny Pudi
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I watched Ken Burns' Civil War series on PBS. My favorite segment is when Bob Hope entertains the troops at Gettysburg. -- Mort Sahl
The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias. -- Pat Mitchell
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar turned out to be all hat and no cattle with his sorry oversight of the Minerals Management Service. -- Tina Brown
Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race -- Christopher McDougall
If I could ask Ken Lay one question right now, do you know what it would be? "Does the Devil really wear Prada?" -- Jay Leno
Tonight I'll be interviewing Ken Watanabe, Keisha Castle Hughes, Benecio Del Toro and Djimon Honsou - and yes, those are actors, not caterers. -- Joan Rivers
Last week convicted Enron crook Ken Lay died of a heart attack. They announced they were going to cremate him. Where he's going, why bother?. -- Jay Leno
The arc of Ken Griffey Jr.'s swing has gotten bigger than when he hit line drives. Juan Gonzalez is a terrific power hitter, too. -- Tony La Russa
Anybody who thinks there`s not a vast right-wing conspiracy in this country must also think that Ken Starr should be our next ambassador to Luxembourg. -- Richard Belzer
I asked him a number of questions and I got some very interesting answers. Ken's heroes, according to Christopher, would be people like John Wayne, of course. -- Stacy Keach
Can I say anything good about Ken Livinstone? A long time ago he did some good things, but I can't now remember what any of them were. -- Boris Johnson
Any history buffs, people who like religion, suspense and mystery mixed with history, or anyone who likes 'The Da Vinci Code,' needs to read Ken Follett. -- Bonnie Somerville
I found it extremely annoying when somebody would say something like "You seem to be influenced by Ken Nordine." And I didn't even know who Ken Nordine was. -- Joe Frank
Mike Leigh and Ken Loach are the people I look up to. They are quality film-makers making interesting, controversial, ground-breaking movies with very little eye on the marketplace. -- Eric Fellner
At Ken Lay's funeral service the minister compared him to Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior. The difference is Dr. King had a dream, Ken Lay had a scheme. -- Jay Leno
If men like [Ken] Starr and his allies could ignore the Constitution and abuse power for ideological and malicious ends to topple a President, I feared for my country. -- Hillary Clinton
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]. -- Charlie Munger
Shaq is Shaq. I did an episode of The Soup with Shaq, and he shook my hand, and I felt like I was a Ken doll, like I had no hand. -- Adam Richman
Since the advent of Benny Goodman, there have been too few clarinetists to fill the void that Goodman left. Ken Peplowski is most certainly one of those few. The man is magic. -- Mel Torme
I loved watching Ken Griffey Jr play for the Mariners and when he was trade to the Reds I was especially excited to get the opportunity to watch him play in person. -- Graham Taylor
A couple of years ago this guy called Ken Brown wrote a book saying that Linus stole Linux from me It later came out that Microsoft had paid him to do this -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
The two policies that Ken Clarke is most famous for are his opposition to the Iraq war and being a very defensible and quite courageous pro-European. These are both policies he shares with us. -- Vince Cable
[Hillary Clinton'] transition director being Ken Salazar, I think, indicates that she will continue to be a friend to fracking. It's not possible to solve the climate crisis while we continue to expand fracking. -- Jill Stein
The recent controversy over the portrayal of Ken Taylor and his embassy staff in the movie 'Argo' brought home to me the great responsibility we writers have when telling stories that involve real people. -- Susanna Kearsley
I'm a huge fan of the Ken Burns documentary style, big time. I love documentaries full stop. I'm a big documentary fan. That's my reality. I don't like reality TV. I like it like that. -- Phil Morris
I never give anyone advice: it can backfire horribly. In the 1950s, Eric Morecambe told Ken Dodd to get his teeth fixed. But those teeth turned out to be one of Dodd's big selling points. -- Paul Merton
You make yourself and others suffer just as much when you take offense as when you give offense Ken Keys, JR The more you depend on forces outside yourself, the more you are dominated by them. -- Harold Sherman
In the Enron scandal, whistleblower Sherron Watkins is now calling herself Enron Brokovitch. She testified Ken Lay was duped by the other executives. Oh, yeah. When is the last time you got duped and made $100 million? -- Jay Leno
Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up. -- Cinco Paul
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Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table. -- Dave Barry
Director Ken Burns revealed that his next documentary is about Franklin Roosevelt, and it's fourteen hours long...which sounds like too much, until you realize there's been over thirty hours of TV dedicated to Honey Boo Boo. -- Jimmy Fallon
You know what? I look forward to the Battle of Alberta for the next X number of years. If the idea is, 'Burn it to the ground,' then Ken can find another manager to do it. -- Jay Feaster
Ken Heitz got drafted by the Bucks the same year I did. He went to their camp just for the experience, then dropped out to attend Harvard Law School. I always admired his combination of athleticism and brains. -- Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall. If I can match them for 10 years, I'd be in their company. They were class acts. That's what I'd like to be. -- Pete Sampras
There's a picture of Christopher and the real Ken Titus and myself in my dressing room. He's a great guy, by the way. I just think the real Ken is just super. And he's so happy for his son's success. -- Stacy Keach
Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together. -- Susan Estrich
If you want something bad enough, you've got to make a bold move. George Washington, took on the British Empire. Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Ken Titus taped a hotel key to his underwear to score with an airport security guard. -- Christopher Titus
Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience. -- Ray Stevenson
Well, there's a bright side to this for Ken Lay. You know, throughout the years Ken Lay has been a big campaign contributor to the Republican Party. So now, he'll be able to meet with those same people when he goes to prison. -- Jay Leno
Every little boy wanna pick up the mic, And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype. But that's like pickin up a ball, playin with Mike, Swingin at Ken Griffey or challengin' Roy to a fight. -- LL Cool J
As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey. -- Stephen Gaghan
I'll just be the first to say that Ken [Watanabe] should be a national treasure in Japan, because he is an unbelievably talented actor. You couldn't find more of a gentleman. He's sweet, he's kind and he's extremely thoughtful in the work that he does. -- Leonardo DiCaprio
David Bowie emerged as a rock star in the late '60s. And as Ken Tucker wrote, "In the face of the hippy era's sincerity, intimacy and generosity, Bowie presented irony, distance and self-absorption. His song 'Changes' announced the arrival of a new counterculture," unquote. -- David Bowie
Are you getting a big kick out of the Enron scandal? I find this interesting that whenever a big crisis starts, people start showing up in church. So, Ken Lay shows up in church this weekend. Church officials are still looking for the collection plates. -- David Letterman
Former Enron founder Ken Lay and CEO Jeffrey Skilling found guilty in the Enron case. Ken Lay is so guilty I'm surprised people aren't calling him Congressman Ken Lay. Wait 'till these guys find out in prison that insider trading has a whole new meaning. -- Jay Leno
Enron's president, Ken Lay, passed away last week. So, I guess even God lost money on that Enron deal. I believe the official cause of death was listed as "karma." The family asked in lieu of flowers, please send some elderly retiree's entire life savings. -- Jay Leno
If I hadn't refused Ken Russell, Fellini and Spielberg and made their movies when they asked me, my life would be no different. It is not my fault that I accepted one movie and turned down another. I don't see any point in defending myself, either. -- Klaus Kinski
I find it very invigorating having Ken Lonergan, who's an established, Pulitzer-nominated playwright doing Howards End, or Chris Hampton who's won an Oscar writing a TV series, or having an actor like Mark Rylance, who is probably England's leading theater actor, in the lead in Wolf Hall. -- Colin Callender
I saw some amazing, beautiful, invigorating parts of America, but I saw some dark parts of America, an ugly side of America, a side of America that rarely sees the light of day. I refer, of course, to the anus and testicles of my co-star, Ken Davitian. -- Sacha Baron Cohen
I've had albums out since the 1970s. I was in a musical, 'The Boy Friend,' directed by Ken Russell, and I was on Broadway in 'My One And Only' with Tommy Tune, so I've always been a singer, but I suppose people think of my modelling more. -- Twiggy
It's pretty awesome. Mattel does such a great job with detail... I'm way better looking than Ken. Barbie's been hitting on my action figure the whole time. She actually asked the stocking people if she could hang next to me, but they said no - because it's PG. -- The Miz
The Three Keys to Success by Ken Poirot: 1) Goal Setting 2) Time Management 3) Life Skills -- Ken Poirot
When there's no more room under the Christmas tree, Ken Foree will have a birthday. -- Ken Foree
I used to be under the impression that if a role wasn't difficult, then there was nothing happening. Then a director said to me: 'Ken, you've got to realise, acting can be fun, too.' -- Ken Stott
My dad (Ken Griffey) would have bopped me on the head when I was a kid if I came home bragging about what I did on the field. He only wanted to know what the team did. -- Ken Griffey, Jr.
The Three Buckets in Life by Ken Poirot: One bucket contains the things we CAN control. The second bucket contains the things we MAY control, and the last bucket contains the things we CAN'T control. Focus on the bucket you CAN control! -- Ken Poirot
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence. -- Sun Tzu
I do not have a brain that I long for in dealing with matters of which I am ignorant, that don't come within my ken and a rationale, a reason, and argument and so on, and I can't do that and I'm not in that bracket at all. -- Richard Attenborough
Joe Morgan was the one guy that absolutely put our team really over the top. ... Then we had George Foster come in; Ken Griffey Sr. was as good a two-place hitter as there has ever been in the game, and Cesar Geronimo won four Gold Glove awards. I mean, how could you ask for a better team? -- Johnny Bench
Growing up, I played 'Ken Griffey, Jr. Baseball' and just whatever I could get my hands on. When I was really young, I was a big fan of Mario and that type of stuff. I still play videogames now, so it was really cool for me to be able to play as myself on '2K6' or '2K7,' I believe it was, when I was a rookie. -- Justin Verlander
God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Then felt I like some watcher of the skies when a new planet swims into his ken. -- John Keats
You can only live in the world you ken. The rest is just wishful thinking or paranoia. -- Irvine Welsh
Threadbare his songs seem now, to lettered ken: They were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. -- William Watson
Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men. -- William Watson
We live in a mystery. Our lives have flowed from exploding stars, from tides of time and gravity beyond our ken. -- John Daniel
So when a great man dies For years beyond our ken The light he leaves behind him lies Upon the paths of men. -- Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi
Ach, people are always telling us not to do things" said Rob Anybody, "that's how we ken the most interesting things to do. -- Terry Pratchett
Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know. -- Irvine Welsh
Unseen hands delay The coming of what oft seems close in ken, And, contrary, the moment, when we say "'Twill never come!" comes on us even then. -- Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton
The world is a mysterious place and the very limitation of our senses in exploring it means we are sometimes aware of there being something beyond our ken. -- Jeff Vandermeer
D'ye ken that the only time I am without pain is in your bed, Sassenach? When I take ye, when I lie in your arms-my wounds are healed, then, my scars forgotten. -- Diana Gabaldon
Nature as a poet, an enthusiastic workingman, becomes more and more visible the farther and higher we go; for the mountains are fountains "? beginning places, however related to sources beyond mortal ken. -- John Muir
When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you'-ye'll ken it was because I didna have time. -- Diana Gabaldon
Ye ken, we've been robbin' and running aroound on all kinds o' worlds for a lang time, and I'll tell ye this: The universe is a lot more comp-li-cated than it looks from the ooutside. -- Terry Pratchett

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