Bill Joy Quotes

The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

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• Every girl on TV, in real life, sure you want to meet that soul mate and fall in love and have the big thing, but until that happens, you gotta kiss a lot of frogs.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Girl

• I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Thinking
  • Myself
  • Guilty

• My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Eggs

• At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Want
  • You
  • Know

• However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.

  

  Nazim Hikmet
  • Live
  • Die
  • Never

• I have some friends, and they're super-hipster. And they're like, 'All I wanna do is sing in a jazz bar and to just make it to pay for the rent.' And I'm like, 'Cool... That's not what I wanna do. I want as many people as possible to go to my concert.'

  

  Zara Larsson
  • People
  • Friends
  • Cool

• Is it ever too late for a sequel?

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Late
  • Ever
  • Too Late

• I think its time to change and balance the environment and growth. If we don't do that, we're going to suffer a hard landing one day very soon.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Time
  • Change
  • Day

• Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • People
  • Done
  • Feel

• Every once in a while, someone will mail me a single popcorn kernel that didn't pop. I'll get out a fresh kernel, tape it to a piece of paper and mail it back to them.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Me
  • Single
  • Popcorn

• I like being a Baha'i who has an out-there sense of humor. God gives us talents and faculties, and making people laugh is one of mine.

  

  Rainn Wilson
  • People
  • God
  • Humor

• I think, my own personal view is there should be higher and higher levels of autonomy; government should not interfere in setting up colleges, in running colleges. The market, the society will decide which is a good university, which is not a good university, rather than government mandating.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Up
  • Good
  • Society

• To disagree, one doesn't have to be disagreeable.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • Disagree
  • Disagreeable

• I was very, very sick when I was growing up in Russia. The ambulance constantly came to our house. I had horrible asthma that is easily treated in America, but they didn't even have inhalers back in Russia.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Up
  • America
  • House

• I love to take something ordinary and make it really special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Special
  • Really
  • Make

• Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Love

• The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Bad
  • Forever
  • Guilty

• To be honest, I think about the clubs when I write. But I should probably start thinking about stadiums, because the songs sound even better there - and bigger.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Thinking
  • Better
  • Start

• I started out wanting to be a naturalist. My obsession in my youth was with bird-watching. I collected things, I spent a lot of time outdoors. I only vaguely realized that science was a little more than natural history, but by then I was hooked.

  

  Matt Ridley
  • Time
  • History
  • Science

• Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

  

  Hu Shih
  • Chinese
  • Novel
  • Beloved

• 'Isn’t that a little hard on him? You’re not only making him feel bad about something he didn’t do, you’re making him feel bad about something that didn’t even shracking happen.''I believe churches used to call it original sin,' Rutherford agreed, looking crafty. 'But what does it matter, if it serves to make him a better man?'

  

  Kage Baker
  • Believe
  • Bad

• I've never had underwear of any kind, anything that you have to wash.

  

  Peter Beard

• Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Wise
  • Smile
  • Rich

• The point is that you want to have a system that is responsive.

  

  Bill Joy