John Perry Barlow Quotes
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
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In the jungle, every day is like the other. So you need to have a special discipline to make things different and to keep in your memory the dates and the days. And I think that's something that's very important when you are held hostage.
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I loved almost everything about being a teacher, but I was an unusual teacher.
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I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.
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Being exposed to different production environments in Korea, Japan and the U.S. was a great experience, and each system allows you to quench your thirst in a different way.
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I want to do stories that inspire people.
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Photographers have to make the clothes look fantastic; that's why we get paid.
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My full name's Jonathan Kimble, but my parents didn't want to call me either. So for a while, I went by Kim, which is a name for a girl or a Korean person.
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Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
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You can always make a film somehow. You can beg, borrow, steal the equipment, use credit cards, use your friends' goodwill, wheedle your way into this or that situation. The real problem is, how do you get people to see it once it is made?
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
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Most of the best music in American history was made by people with no options.
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In fourth grade, I was interested in all areas of science. I particularly loved learning about how the earth was created.
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With 'Pretty Girls,' I saw the opportunity to talk not just about crime but what crime leaves behind.
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Companies like Google and Facebook may offer jobs allowing or requiring imagination and creativity, but the whole of Silicon Valley accounts for only 3 percent of national income and a smaller percentage of national employment.
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A constitution, in the American sense of the word, is a written instrument by which the fundamental powers of the government are established, limited, and defined, and by which these powers are distributed among several departments, for their more safe and useful exercise, for the benefit of the body politic.
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The hardest part about this business is accepting the back end with the same love that you accepted the front end.
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I am still confused as to why they chose to lie and tried to make me a legend when the real heroics of my fellow soldiers that day were, in fact, legendary. People like Lori Piestewa and First Sergeant Dowdy who picked up fellow soldiers in harm's way. Or people like Patrick Miller and Sergeant Donald Walters who actually fought until the very end. The bottom line is the American people are capable of determining their own ideals of heroes and they don't need to be told elaborate tales.
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I share so much of my life on social media, and I love the honest connection with the people that follow me.
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People don't look at you singing. They go within themselves and listen. Music is about listening, not looking. That's why I wore these huge baggy dresses on stage with The Cranberries.
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We live in a world that relies on technology.
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I run a tight ship, but I try and make it seem like I'm not doing that at all.
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I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
