John Gruber Quotes
I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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I do get recognized, more and more every day.
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Therefore, a person should first be changed by a teacher's instructions, and guided by principles of ritual. Only then can he observe the rules of courtesy and humility, obey the conventions and rules of society, and achieve order.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I have been out of drama school for 13 years, so there are 13 years' worth of graduates behind me.
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And as an American colleague said to me several months ago, he said, 'I think the challenge in Jordan - and, again, this is for the rest of the Middle East - we need to define what center is. And once we can define what center is to a Jordanian, then we can decide what's left and what's right of that.
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Let us not say that we will decide on a political basis at the national level that no State is competent to regulate the practice of medicine in that State if they decide to allow a doctor to prescribe marijuana, because that is what we are talking about.
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I love being a redhead. It's a rare thing, so I think there's a bond between redheads.
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A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
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A rattlesnake loose in the living room tends to end all discussion of animal rights.
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As soon as chemists have a definite conception of the internal structure of the molecule of an organic compound, they are able to tackle the task of producing these substances by artificial methods, i.e. by synthesis, as we call it.
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Why did people get so upset when somebody mentioned dying? Did they think that if they didn’t mention it, it would skip a few people and leave them alive forever?
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Everything is always grungy in England, no? It's like a little shibboleth of the upper class, wearing something out of your grandfather's trunk.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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Ebay's success as a company depends on the success of the community of sellers.
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I went outside, tripping over slabs of sunshine the size of towns. The sun was like a crowd of people, it was a party, it was music. The sun was blaring through the walls of the houses and beating down the steps. The Sun was drumming time into the stone. The sun was rhythming the day. (p. 197)
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Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing.
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I always thought of myself as more of a columnist, but maybe a columnist who does reporting.
