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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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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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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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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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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A lot of funny stuff happens in Canada.
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I feel that racial profiling may be a very complicated and long-standing problem. It will take a long time even to make tiny progress.
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I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works.
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I do honour the very flea of his dog.
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When someone turns to me and addresses me as 'our Queen', that word means a lot to me because it makes me feel that they know my life is theirs. My joy is their joy. My worries are their worries. If the word 'queen' means something to me, 'our queen' means everything to me.
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Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
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Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.
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I count on the kindness of strangers.
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Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do the essential traits in our character first reveal themselves. But truly in the little things the real self is exteriorised.
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I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
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I mean I look forward to the day when I can be Republican again.
