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 first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.
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Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
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(The lockout) makes no sense unless you put it in the context of a wider strategy, which is to somehow weaken Canadians' commitment to Canada Post so that ultimately, when the government gets out there to privatize it, they think they can get the public on their side
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There is some good evidence man contributes to global warming. But I say, so what? We can deal with that. It's not a catastrophe. And cold is far worse for hurting people than warmth.
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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.
