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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Sometimes a song can take up to a year to write, and because I waited that year and waited to work on it that day, it came up that extra 50 percent.
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I think that whether you've just begun writing or whether you've been writing for fifty years - I mean, I'm excited to get there and tell you about it when I do - I think that there's always the challenge of believing in yourself enough to get the work done and not being so taken with yourself that you're unwilling to continue to work on the work.
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Radioactivity is shown to be accompanied by chemical changes in which new types of matter are being continually produced. .... The conclusion is drawn that these chemical changes must be sub-atomic in character.
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Giving a minimum wage reduces inequality significantly.
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You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough.
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I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
