John Perry Barlow Quotes
Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
Quotes to Explore
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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I wrote 'The River' practically trying to rip off every lick that James Taylor had, so it was neat to hear him sing those lyrics because that's who inspired you to write them.
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I always wear the same thing at home. I can't be bothered with jewelry. My pants have elastic waists. I like to be comfortable. There are so many more important things to worry about.
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I am a big believer that eventually everything comes back to you. You get back what you give out.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Nitric oxide was known for destroying things.
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My most noticeable physical trait is, hands down, my hair. It's big, unruly and curly, and you can spot it from a mile away... literally.
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The shoes and the eyes are windows to a woman's spirit.
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I didn't go out of my way to get into this movie stuff. I think of myself as a writer.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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We lived in a one-bedroom apartment in Northwest D.C. I was essentially raised by a Panamanian man and a Jamaican woman. That's why I have such a fascination with Jamaican food.
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'Steve Jobs' is my seventh movie. I believe, if you added them up, I don't think there is more than a total of 10 minutes that takes place in a person's home. They're all in offices, courtrooms, laboratories, things like that.
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If you have a job without any aggravations, you don't have a job.
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I've been out doing signings and talking to a lot of people, and I'm just really grateful.
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I was really fat in school.
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The U.K. is so important to me. It's everything - it's my home. I love America, but it's so important for me to be here and be an artist and be well known here.
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All my vocals were recorded at home, which was great for me. You can actually have a studio in a computer program called ProTools. I did half the record with ProTools.
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While change is rarely comfortable, I am happy to say that we not only survived but also grew more capable in the process - seeding much of the information revolution which now pervades the world in which we live.
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Ethical ideas and sentiments have to be considered as parts of the phenomena of life at large. We have to deal with man as a product of evolution, with society as a product of evolution, and with moral phenomena as products of evolution.
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What use was it to argue with a little idiot like this? Indeed, peasants never do argue; they use abuse.
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I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush.
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
