John Perry Barlow Quotes
The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.

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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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We have much to be judged on when he comes, slums and battlefields and insane asylums, but these are the symptoms of our illness and the result of our failures in love.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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The physics of water is central to cooking, because food is mostly water. All steak that you cook is actually boiled on the inside.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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I am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!
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Good fiction is made of that which is real, and reality is difficult to come by.
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You always have to be on at times, and occasionally people get upset if you say no to a picture when you're eating dinner or something, and that's kind of the hard part. Or if you get crazy rumors that swirl around you from time to time that are just silly.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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I don't know where my fashion sense comes from, exactly. I've always been interested in, not necessarily being unique, but not necessarily sticking to the preexisting paradigm - whether it be clothes or music or whatever.
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I don't get tired of my work because you can't get tired of something you love and enjoy! But, having said that, I wish to get a break of four to five days, or at least three days, switch off my cell phone, and do what I want to.
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What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.
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All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.
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More than anything, I think the best thing you can do as an artist is just stay as true to yourself as possible and hope that your fan base will appreciate that.
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Every businessman, or every person who has a passion for his work, is torn for the time spent at work and the time spent with your family.
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If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward.
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The only advice I give to acting students is, 'Be nice to your underclassmen. You never know who might be in a position to help you get a job one day.'
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A part of me will always be unflyable, stuck in the climb.
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The Internet may well disempower the nation state, but at the same time, it also strengthens certain specific state functions - like surveillance. As a political entity, it doesn't empower the nation sate. It creates the availability of much more data than the digestive system of the nation state could possibly assimilate.