Brian Behlendorf Quotes
Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.
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It's my job to have ups and downs because it makes good music.
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
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I like when everything's naturally moving along - I find that pretty exciting.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
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I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, that don't believe that you have any kind of longevity.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.
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I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.
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Emmitt Smith is a great running back. One of the things I like about him along with Edgerrin James is that neither one of them 'show out' when they run a touchdown.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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The worst part of getting close to someone is the part when you have to miss them.
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Statistics is the art of lying by means of figures.
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I'll never have so compelling a figure within my embrace as Joan of Arc; there will never be a book whose last chapter is so very hard to get right.
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We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles.
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I learned a long time ago from when I did 'Seinfeld' never to take anything seriously, and to be part of the joke is the best way to show what a good sport I was.
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Certainly I get a lot personally out of it as well, there's the recognition and things like that but mostly I try to take that as an opportunity to explain why I hope we could see more projects like Apache out there and why it's a good thing for society.
