John Perry Barlow Quotes
We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
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I don't think what I look like is relevant.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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Our best thoughts come from others.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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I kept writing all these ballads; they're me speaking about life. But how am I gonna do the live show I wanna do if I don't have something I can dance to?
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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If I'm on a date, I don't want to talk business right away. Let it feel like a date. I don't want to talk about my job right then.
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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.
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A thinking mind is not swallowed up by what it comes to know. It reaches out to grasp something related to itself and to its present knowledge (and so knowable in some degree) but also separate from itself and from its present knowledge (not identical with these). In any act of thinking, the mind must reach across this space between known and unknown, linking one to the other but also keeping visible to difference. It is an erotic space.
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If you attempt to beat a man down and to get his goods for less than a fair price, you are attempting to commit burglary, as much as though you broke into his shop to take the things without paying for them.
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We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before.
