John Perry Barlow Quotes
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I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.
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Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.
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Artists and art institutions have to learn how to play hardball. A democratic society needs a democratic art and we have a right to demand it.
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Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.
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The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.
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I've always loved it in Las Vegas, and it is the only city in the world that brings so many different talented people from so many places.
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I don't need adult supervision.
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My father cared about the world he lived in, and so he admitted his confusion about his place in America because he didn't want me to make the same mistake in my life.
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Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.
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Books are humanity in print.
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
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I'll be truly happy when we're not counting the number of ethnically diverse models on a fashion runway or campaign, when having a representation of the entire human race is the norm and not an exception.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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Lands for the purposes of pleasure and magnificence, parks, gardens, public walks, &c. possessions which are every where considered as causes of expence, not as sources of revenue, seem to be the only lands which, in a great and civilized monarchy, ought to belong the crown.
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Good doctors exercise judgment. They make the call and - right or wrong - live with the consequences and learn from them. The redefined M.D. is flawed, but comfortable inside their own skin.
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Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent.
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The way out then is personal responsibility, new operating systems downloaded from outside of culture, which means from the deeper wisdom of the psychedelic plants and then a commitment to community and a motto of "To the future, without fear!" Without fear!
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I think that being a mother, you would do anything for your children. Their pain is your pain; if they're in pain, you feel their pain.
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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
