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.Jamie Zawinski
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
J. Michael Straczynski -
An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
Zach Galligan -
Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.
Warren Buffett -
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.
Abby Wambach -
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.
Barbara Mertz -
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.
Tavi Gevinson
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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.
Vera Wang -
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.
Patricia Heaton -
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.
Patrick Duffy -
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.
Salman Rushdie -
God gave us Lincoln and Liberty, let us fight for both.
Ulysses S. Grant -
Passive resistance and boycotting are now prominent features of every great national movement.
Benjamin Tucker
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Virtue alone has majesty in death.
Edward Young -
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.
Ludwig Wittgenstein -
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.
Christian Louboutin -
I tend to gravitate toward ballads and mid-tempo songs.
Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum -
My last supper would be a charcuterie smorgasbord with every kind of meat, and sauces to dip them in.
Kelis Rogers -
The government is determined to continue the process of fiscal consolidation and structural reform in order to secure sound public finances and improve the country's international competitiveness.
Lucas Papademos
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For me, being alove it is being close to nature, either by the beach or near the ocean. When I look around and see how small I am in comparison to all that surrounds me, it fuels me.
Betsy Landin -
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
Paul Theroux -
Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
Benjamin Franklin -
My dream was to have a slide bannister so I could slide down and go out the door to work.
Cynthia Rowley -
The only solution to the contradictions of capitalism entails the abolition of wage labour.
David Harvey -
If you give a hacker a new toy, the first thing he'll do is take it apart to figure out how it works.
Jamie Zawinski