John Perry Barlow Quotes
Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I suppose the place where I live is fairly remote, it would seem remote to some people.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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I have a cousin called Flirta D who was big in the grime world, which made me really cool at school. 'Flirta D's your cousin?' 'Yeah, buddy.' 'He must be a millionaire!'
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Yeats, protected to some extent by the Nationalistic movement, wrote out of a somewhat protected world, and so his work does not touch life deeply.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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In a lot of movies, you'll see people on crazy dates, and you're like, 'No one would ever do that!'
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It's an odd mix, the life of a playwright.
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My favourite flowers are English country roses - I had a bouquet of them for my wedding.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
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When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn't really like hanging out with guys. When I was about ten or eleven, I was friendlier with the girls in my school than with the guys.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.
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Everyone seems to be playing well within the boundaries of his usual rule set. I have yet to hear anyone say something that seemed likely to mitigate the idiocy of this age.
