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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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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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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There is no sense in getting excited by market cap because it is a tool.
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I love Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart because they're bringing irony back into American humor, which is a delicious treat. The entire Colbert persona of being extreme right-wing when he's not at all is highly amusing. He does it so well, but sometimes a little too well. My wife is convinced he's completely that way.
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I'd been trying for a while to get parts that weren't just the English bad guy, so it was quite refreshing to be playing someone who was a compassionate, decent guy.
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Being a Negro writer these days is a racket and I'm going to make the most of it while it lasts. About twice a year I sell a story. It is acclaimed. I am a genius in the making. Thank God for this Negro literary renaissance. Long may it flourish
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My biggest job really is to figure other people out. I need to understand what makes a person tick.
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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.
