Christopher Poole Quotes
4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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Growing up in a particular neighborhood, growing up in a working-class family, not having much money, all of those things fire you and can give you an edge, can give you an anger.
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I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.
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Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.
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Certain subjects may no longer be taboo in cinema. But there are ways to treat them that still create shock.
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There are many challenges in the global education ecosystem: from top-down systemic issues in how educational services are organized and delivered, to bottom-up issues of curriculum effectiveness, accountability, and human resource allocation.
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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I loved when my dad was home. He liked to sit in the living room and watch boxing and baseball on TV. Or he'd be tinkering around or listening to records by his musician buddies - George Shearing, Oscar Peterson and the Jackie Gleason Orchestra.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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I'm really proud that the LGBT community has gotten behind me because, as I said, I am part of the community, so I do as much as I possibly can for our community and for our rights, so it's nice that everyone is supporting me as well.
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The children break all my jewelry, so everything I wear is cheap - from Topshop or Dorothy Perkins.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.
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I liked to dye my hair as a teenager. I dyed it a lot of different colours: blue, red, pink.
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Liberalism, austere in political trifles, has learned ever more artfully to unite a constant protest against the government with a constant submission to it.
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This is unexposed film of Greenwich Village because nothing ever happens there.
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No one is free who does not lord over himself.
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When countries commit to protecting vulnerable lives, they should receive support from those who can provide it in order to make their programs a success.
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4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.
