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“I live by a man's code, designed to fit a man's world, yet at the same time I never forget that a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of lipstick.”

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Author:Carole Lombard

“Istanbul is inspiring because it has its own code of architecture, literature, poetry, music.”

Literature Architecture Code Istanbul

Author:Christian Louboutin

“I think the purpose of a piece of music is significant when it actually lives in somebody else. A composer puts down a code, and a performer can activate the code in somebody else. Once it lives in somebody else, it can live in others as well.”

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Author:Yo-Yo Ma

“You do not know our culture, our ethics, or the unwritten codes that already provide our society more order than could be obtained by any of your impositions.”

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Author:John Perry Barlow

“When people think about computer science, they imagine people with pocket protectors and thick glasses who code all night.”

People Thinking Night Imagine Computer Glasses Code Pockets Thick All Night Computer Science Protector

Author:Marissa Mayer

“There are three legs of the stool; spending, entitlements and making the tax code fair and equitable. That's the three legs of the stool. If we do all of those in a responsible, bipartisan way, I think the American people would all be very, very happy.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Three Taxes Fairs Responsible Legs Spending Code Very Happy Entitlement Bipartisan Stools Equitable Three Legs

Author:Claire McCaskill

“Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive.”

Language Forget Speech Code Legislation Classification

Author:Roland Barthes

“Any type of operating system that I wanted to be able to hack, I basically compromised the source code, copied it over to the university because I didn't have enough space on my 200 megabyte hard drive.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“It's true, I had hacked into a lot of companies, and took copies of the source code to analyze it for security bugs. If I could locate security bugs, I could become better at hacking into their systems. It was all towards becoming a better hacker.”

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Author:Kevin Mitnick

“I don't want to do anything that violates my own personal code of ethics and morals.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“Here's what I don't think works: An economic system that was founded in the 16th century and another that was founded in the 19th century. I'm tired of this discussion of capitalism and socialism; we live in the 21st century, we need an economic system that has democracy as its underpinnings and an ethical code.”

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Author:Michael Moore

“Trying to read our DNA is like trying to understand software code - with only 90% of the code riddled with errors. It's very difficult in that case to understand and predict what that software code is going to do.”

Trying Difficult Cases Errors Code Software Dna

Author:Elon Musk

“I beg you, look for the words 'social justice' or 'economic justice' on your church Web site. If you find it, run as fast as you can. Social justice and economic justice, they are code words.”

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Author:Glenn Beck

“David Stern should get with the mothers of the NBA and let the moms decide what the dress code should be. I asked my mother if I could wear a chain, and she told me yeah. So I do stuff that my parents allow me to do.”

Ifs Should Mother Stuff Parent Mom Basketball Dresses Yeah Chains Code If I Could Nba Dress Code

Author:Shaquille O'Neal

“I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.”

Mean Children Age Honor Code Educate Private Parts Code Of Honor

Author:Christine Pelosi

“I am also the product of a place called Paint Creek. Doesn't have a zip code. It's too small to be called a town along the rolling plains of Texas. We grew dryland cotton and wheat, and when I wasn't farming or attending Paint Creek Rural School, I was generally over at Troop 48 working on my Eagle Scout award.”

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Author:Rick Perry

“An enormous amount of scientific language is metaphorical. We talk about a genetic code, where code originally meant a cipher; we talk about the solar system model of the atom as though the atom were like a sun and moon and planets.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Tom Hanks, who starred in 'The Da Vinci Code,' turns out to be related to a number of the historic characters that feature in 'The Da Vinci Code,' including William the Conqueror and Shakespeare.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth.”

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Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“'Empathy' is the latest code word for liberal activism, for treating the Constitution as malleable clay to be kneaded and molded in whatever form justices want. It represents an expansive view of the judiciary in which courts create policy that couldn't pass the legislative branch or, if it did, would generate voter backlash.”

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Author:Karl Rove

“You know who a complicated tax code kills? The guy or gal trying to start a business out of the spare bedroom of their home. So we've got to simplify our tax code.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the family.”

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Author:Nawal El Saadawi

“Theosophy has no code of morals, being itself the embodiment of the highest morality; it presents to its students the highest moral teachings of all religions, gathering the most fragrant blossoms from the gardens of the world-faiths.”

World Moral Teaching Students Morality Highest Garden Code Gathering Embodiment

Author:Annie Besant

“The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go.”

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Book:Anchorwoman

Source: Anchorwoman

“When Mitt Romney says he wants to reform the tax code, hold on to your wallets. We know Mitt Romney never met a tax haven he didn't like. But his new favorite tax haven is actually not the Cayman Islands - its Paul Ryan's budget.”

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Author:Charles Schumer

“Women are smart in business and dumb in love. They won't date outside their zip code, let alone outside the city. They are city snobs.”

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Author:Patti Stanger

“Obama's view of the tax code is inherently political: Whom can we hit next? Energy companies, jet owners, bankers? Instead, the question should be how to promote economic efficiency by raising revenue without trying to manipulate corporate or personal behavior.”

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Author:John Sununu

“In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'”

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Author:James Surowiecki

“Ought we not to ask the media to agree among themselves a voluntary code of conduct, under which they would not say or show anything which could assist the terrorists' morale or their cause while the hijack lasted.”

Shows Asks Causes Media Ought Agree Terrorist Code Morale

Book:In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986

Source: In defence of freedom: speeches on Britain's relations with the world 1976-1986

“And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.”

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Author:Clarence Thomas

“One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.”

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Author:Ken Thompson

“It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the hackers from very serious prosecution.”

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Author:Ken Thompson

“An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing.”

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Author:Linus Torvalds

“As a Senator I am opposed to duelling. As Ben. Wade, I recognize the code.”

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Author:Benjamin F. Wade

“I found it interesting that as people become more technically oriented all over the world, at the same time people are becoming increasingly spiritual. The success of the Da Vinci code - even though it was a great yawn - also showed people's interest in religion.”

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Author:Barbara Walters

“Code writers, they are my idols.”

Code Idols

Author:will.i.am

“We all rely on technology to communicate, to survive, to do our banking, to shop, to get informed, but none of us knows how to read and write the code.”

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Author:will.i.am

“I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just storytelling; it's different ways of using codes and images and words and sounds.”

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Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.”

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Author:Anthony Bourdain

“You have with you the book you were reading in the cafe, which you are eager to continue, so that you can then hand it on to her, to communicate again with her through the channel dug by others' words, which, as they are uttered by an alien voice, by the voice of that silent nobody made of ink and typographical spacing, can become yours and hers, a language, a code between the two of you, a means to exchange signals and recognize each other.”

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Author:Italo Calvino

“Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like Braille. I like to keep my body rolled up away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, or tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. She has translated me into her own book.”

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Book:Written On The Body

Source: Written On The Body

“The Fat Girl Code of Conduct: 1. Any sexual activity is a secret. No public displays of affection. 2. Don’t discuss your weight with him. 3. Go further than skinny girls. If you can’t sell him on your body, you’d better overcompensate with sexual perks. 4. Never, ever, ever, ever, ever push the relationship thing.”

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Author:Carolyn Mackler

“Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?”

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Author:Thomas Pynchon

“Morality is a code of black and white. When and if men attempt a compromise, it is obvious which side will necessarily lose and which will necessarily profit.”

Ifs Men Sides Black Loses White Morality Profit Obvious Compromise Code Black And White

Book:The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism

Source: The virtue of selfishness: a new concept of egoism

“There's nothing of any importance in life — except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from that. It's the only measure of human value.”

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Author:Ayn Rand

“Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of time before time, she says little, and in a language that no one has yet understood. Through time, her secret codes have gradually been broken. Her mud and lava is a message from the past. Of time to come, she says much, but who listens?”

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Book:Weight

Source: Weight

“Deep down, below the surface of the average man's conscience, he hears a voice whispering, "There is something not right," no matter how much his rightness is supported by public opinion or moral code.”

Men Matter Voice Moral Opinion Conscience Average Surface Code Public Opinion Deep Down Whispering Memories Dreams Reflections Average Man Moral Code Below The Surface

Author:Carl Jung

“It is merely an accident of history that it is considered normal in our society to believe that the Creator of the universe can hear your thoughts while it is demonstrative of mental illness to believe that he is communicating with you by having the rain tap in Morse code on your bedroom window.”

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Book:The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

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