Brian Acton Quotes
Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
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I guess hip-hop has been closer to the pulse of the streets than any music we've had in a long time. It's sociology as well as music, which is in keeping with the tradition of black music in America.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
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I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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I play guitar and write music, and that's definitely a huge part of my life, but it's my personal thing that I have for me.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
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Shouldn't you put the same amount of effort into your giving as you might for your for-profit investments? After all, philanthropy is an investment, and one in which lives - not profits - are at stake.
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I was told having a website would help me. I have yet to figure out why my life story needs to be on the web.
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Nothing can be better calculated to advance our interests and character than the establishment of a liberal and disinterested policy, enlightened by patriotism and guided by wisdom.
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When I lost my decathlon world record I took it like a man. I only cried for ten hours.
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I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.
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I feel like if you are with someone through the process of pregnancy and delivery, if nothing else, there is such an incredible amount of respect that would lead into some sort of love in one way or another.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.
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Building secure products actually makes for a safer world; many people in law enforcement may not agree with that.
