John Perry Barlow Quotes
I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
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When it's those division games, that's when it gets ramped up for me.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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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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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Jessica Lange was my biggest crush when I was a kid.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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With my sunglasses on, I'm Jack Nicholson. Without them, I'm fat and 60.
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Google appears to be the worst of the major search engines from a privacy point of view; Ask.com, with AskEraser turned on, is among the best.
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Our duty was to try and find the Japanese fleet. We never did find the Japanese fleet and I am awfully glad, because they had attacked us there with six carriers, three battleships, 10 or 15 cruisers, and about 20 destroyers.
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Dreams become reality when we put our minds to it.
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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
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I really like the old stuff that I cut my musical teeth on, and I loved it when the industry was just like that, without really a genre. Today, country radio's more aimed at a demographic than a genre. It just softens everything.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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I want to produce a country album for a country singer.
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I totally had OCD as a teenager. I used to have to touch all four sides of a picture frame when I got home from school and before I started to do my homework. It was time-consuming. But then I just outgrew it, though it sometimes comes back when I'm under a lot of stress.
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I use the Clarisonic electronic skin cleansing system. It's great for removing excess oil and make-up and leaves my face feeling really smooth and clean. Then I apply Avon Anew Rejuvenate Day Revitalising Cream and Creme de la Mer Eye Concentrate. I think eye cream is so important - it keeps me looking young and prevents wrinkles.
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I don't care if it's somebody else's song. Most of the time, you'll find that I'll put my own stamp on it. But I started writing more because, you know, it's easy to regurgitate what somebody else is doing, but it's exciting to be able to come up with your own writing.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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Slowly but surely, we are acquiring that famous culture of democracy, which is our objective.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.
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Do all the work you can; that is the whole philosophy of the good way of life.
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I had always thought that the idea of love at first sight was one of those things invented by lady novelists from the South with three names.
