John Perry Barlow Quotes
I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
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And although I've been very fortunate in the film work that's come my way, I need to get back to the stage. If I'm away for a maximum of two years, I feel something's wrong.
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I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
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There are a lot of mindless moments in my tunes.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.
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More often than not, I get cast as quite Machiavellian roles - it's something about my face; I'm quite shifty or something!
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If you always feel like an imposter, you work harder, and that makes you better at your job. You've got to keep a level of variation; otherwise, you'll end up talking about nails and beauty products all the time.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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There is always a mix of apprehension and excitement before you try songs out on a new audience.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
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My life has been the antithesis of that book 'The Secret'. I've always been interested in doing what I do. I love storytelling and I really enjoyed acting, but it never seemed like a realistic thing.
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Acting to me is real life - I don't act.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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Amiri Baraka went to Howard. Lucille Clifton went to Howard. Ossie Davis went to Howard. And I was aware of that when I was there. Charles Drew went to Howard. Thurgood Marshall went to the law school. Being aware of that and having all of that brought to bear, again, it's one of those things that I can't really separate from my career as a writer.
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I was attracted to law school because I believed it would help me prepare for a career in the real world.
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The 1996 welfare reform law, for the first time, connected welfare benefits with an expectation that recipients would work or participate in training. That work requirement led to record increases in employment and earnings and a record decrease in poverty and welfare dependence after it was enacted.
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I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.
