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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Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.
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You know, how am I leading my own life? What am I denying? Since I brought such great powers of denial into my adult life, what am I not doing as a husband? What am I not doing as a father? The whole thing started unraveling with me that once I kept it up close to the chest, I could hold it all in, but once I started letting it out, it all started coming out.
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The truth is simple. If it was complicated, everyone would understand it.
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If you want to be a legitimate artist, it's more important what you say no to.
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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
