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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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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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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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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Haud igitur redit ad nihilum res ulla.
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'I am the table!'
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Every Marine is, first and foremost, a rifleman. All other conditions are secondary.
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We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not really. Not at all.
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A vegan diet takes care of most of what we need to do. But you'll also want to minimize the use of oils generally, because while olive oil and other vegetable oils are better for your heart than chicken fat, they are as fattening as animal fats.
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There were so many occasions when I wasn't around for my kids or my husband. But we learnt to work around it.
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Man does not speak because he thinks; he thinks because he speaks. Or rather, speaking is no different than thinking: to speak is to think.
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Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.
