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.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Think
  • Like
  • Look

• The student will try to defy the master. Always.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Always
  • Try
  • Student

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Best
  • Thoughts
  • Come

• I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.

  

  Oksana Baiul
  • Good
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Environment
  • Something

• 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.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Life
  • Poverty
  • My Life

• The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

  

  Edith Sitwell
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Truth

• 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.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Beauty
  • Charm

• Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Animal

• People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Power
  • Together

• 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.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• I can't remember writing any of the songs that I've written.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Writing
  • Remember
  • Songs

• 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.

  

  Lance Ito
  • Important
  • Truth
  • American

• 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?

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Live

• Medical decisions have been politicized. What doctor wants a state legislator in his consulting room?

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Decisions
  • Medical
  • Doctor

• If some people try to make a prenup into a pre-negotiation of a divorce... Well, that's really sad. But I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. They aren't always fun discussions to have, and they can be very eye-opening.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Important
  • Fun

• I'm wondering how many elected figures any of us could find who do not, in the front or back of their minds, remember who does them favors, who doesn't.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Remember
  • Find
  • Back

• My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• I try to share a lot of my life on Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, everything. I really like interacting with fans on Twitter and answering their questions and just getting to know them because it's cool for them to have people who are connecting with my music reach out and show interest.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • People
  • Life
  • Music

• In the 1920s, big names in the Arab world spoke of Scheherazade as an example for intellectuals fighting for their rights. She was a fighter for the right of free expression.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • World
  • Expression
  • Rights

• Until writing was invented, we lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, the dark of the mind, the world of emotion, primordial intuition, terror. Speech is a social chart of this bog. (p. 13)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • World
  • Writing
  • Mind

• Whoever controls the media, controls the mind.

  

  Jim Morrison The Doors
  • Mind
  • Media
  • Controls

• 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.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
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