Brian Behlendorf Quotes
There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
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The line between private and public lives is a fertile one for me. I've lived quite a public life, and it's the reason I have used well-known people in my work. I'm interested in what's going on beneath the facades they present to the world, taking them to a place which is uncomfortable.
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Strong limits on carbon pollution will save Americans money, create jobs, improve our health, and help defuse climate change.
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The trains were the beating heart of the New York graffiti scene.
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Music is very abstract. When we talk about music, we're not discussing the music itself but rather how we react to it.
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I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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A pit bull is like a fighter. Every so often it needs to taste blood.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produce more inequality than is socially healthy or than is necessary for maximum efficiency.
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I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.
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There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.
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We don’t earn grace. We're all sinners. We don't deserve it. But God gives it to us anyway. And we choose how to receive it. It's our decision how to honor it.
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Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.
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Have you considered that these prophecies were not divine revelations, but merely manipulation from some secular power?
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If men could only know each other, they would never either idolize or hate.
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(We are) the herpes of American cinema (because) we aren't going anywhere...
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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Facts matter a great deal to me.
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I would love to be in New York, but it's really hard to be unemployed in New York. Everyone's got a place to be. In L.A., there's a system, a science to being unemployed.
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My friends and I would get up early and take our horses through the national forest. My mom was very free. It was always 'Out of the house!' There was no watching television on weekends.
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I think the Winter Olympics are definitely on a smaller scale than the summer games, but with the inclusion of cool new sports like slopestyle skiing and snowboarding, it is going to breathe new life into them and attract a whole new crowd.
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Big ideas developed in a vacuum are doomed from the start. Feedback is the essential tool for building and growing a successful company.
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There is no better form of trade a developing nation can engage in than to sell services provided by an educated population.
