Jamie Zawinski Quotes
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Responding to terrorism inevitably implies military consequences. This may shock some people, but these groups must also be dealt with on a military footing. I won't use the word 'combat' to avoid being painted as a crusader.
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Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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Before 'This is Our Youth', I did a week of table reading 'Airline Highway' at Steppenwolf in Chicago while the author, Lisa D'Amour, workshopped it.
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That was a major goal for me - to be able to reach and encourage more women, to encourage them to express themselves and be what they want to be. People get very trapped where they are.
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We did an episode where she goes out to get a job and she gets fired because she's not good. They hire a babysitter to help out and she finds out she hates the fact that the kids have more fun with the sitter than her.
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I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.
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Improving small business opportunities through federal contracts creates jobs and saves taxpayer money.
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I've been worrying about God a little bit lately. It seems as if he's been lashing out, you know, destroying cities, annihilating places. It seems like he's been in a bad mood. And I think it has to do with the quality of lovers he's been getting. If you look at the people who love God now, you know, if I was God, I'd need to destroy something.
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God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
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Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
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Well-fed and liquored, I responded with ardour.
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
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Human beings have a physical need to tell themselves when at work: 'Let’s have done with it now,' and it’s having constantly to go on thinking in the face of this need when philosophizing that makes this work so strenuous.
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The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.
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I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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I really want to bring ensemble playing back to the forefront - not just for me, but for everyone in jazz. When you have a group, a true co-op group, you can really heighten the possibilities of all the treasures of jazz.
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You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness.
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He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
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If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
