John Gruber Quotes
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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My kitchen bench is covered with vitamins and protein powders. I go through phases when I'm sure I'm taking too many - but I don't get sick often.
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When I talk to people in need, they tell me they want to hope; they are eager for opportunity; they are ready for better days. And I can tell you that every time their hopes are disappointed, all nations lose.
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I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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Sometimes we have to take on jobs that we don't love, and I always encourage any creative person to use those as the fuel to do the things that you do love to do, even if they don't pay.
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I do not believe in populism. I am not a supporter of radical decisions. Practice has shown that usually these are harmful.
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Modeling is basically 'Buy more stuff! Don't you want some more stuff? It will make you look ten years younger and men will like you!' If I'd wanted to be a salesperson, I would have got a job selling.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.
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He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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I know so many Irish musicians. They're all over, because there has been so much emigration from Ireland. Like the Jews.
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America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.
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A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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In the morning, I look at my calendar and think about whether things that aren't critical can be moved to the next week.
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I would never challenge any rapper to a rap-off. It's weird, I'm not that type of rapper.
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An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.
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The feelings I don't have I don't have. The feelings I don't have, I won't say I have. The felings you say you have, you don't have. The feelings you would like us both to have, we neither of us have.
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I had a probing mind and an elephant memory.
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'The cloud' is effectively an augmentation of our brains' memories.
