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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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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My solar plexus was tight with fear as I ploughed on. Halfway up I stopped, exhausted. I could look down 10,000 feet between my legs, and I have never felt more insecure. Anxiously I waved Tenzing up to me.
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I might not be beautiful, but I'm very interesting!
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When people ask me to define science fiction and fantasy I say they are the literatures that explore the fact that we are toolmakers and users, and are always changing our environment.
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The world for our law enforcement community has changed dramatically: everything from filling out paperwork to relationships with the community and how they think the narrative is in the media.
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The economic issues are most vital for us and it is of the highest importance that we should fight our biggest enemies – Poverty, unemployment. Whether it is agriculture or industrial development, or for that matter, development in other fields, the basic fact remains – that it would serve the largest number of our people.
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Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent.
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
