John Leo Quotes
Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
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The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude.
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To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
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I'm a huge gamer. I'm very excited, and the idea of the Rift was as a headset that was designed around the specific uses of VR gaming. But I'm excited about a lot of stuff that's outside of it, because I was a VR enthusiast. I want VR to be the thing that we all live in, that we all use for everything, not just games.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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The great opportunity belongs to him who can see it, to him who can grasp it. The better part of your chance is right inside of you.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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I went from being a jock to a hippie. It was a very clear-cut decision. I had to be one or the other. I had to forsake that other aspect of myself. Or thought that I had to, which is regrettable. Quickly, I was back in the pine trees with the hippies, listening to my Jimi Hendrix and my Janis Joplin and turning on, tuning in, and dropping out.
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You know, acting is very fascinating. But being an actress is not, because you become so concentrated on yourself.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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I love Japan, and Tokyo is my favorite city.
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I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from artists that I really love and respect, to share a stage... I've been very lucky in that I haven't had to create a five-year plan. It's evolved.
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I'm really excited about furthering my film career in Bollywood and Hollywood.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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My operas and my theatre works are very formal pieces.
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The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.
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I fancy myself at being pretty good at understanding a script and finding the weaknesses, and then making them more radical than they are. People tend to listen to me.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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But the fast lane too gets to be a rut.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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Free speech has a very small constituency on the modern campus, particularly if the speaker under attack is conservative.
