John Perry Barlow Quotes

I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead

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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.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Mistake
  • Big
  • Over

• Individual goals never meant that much to me. The Heisman is no exception.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Goals
  • Individual
  • Exception

• A busybody's work is never done.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Work
  • Done
  • Never

• All I ever wanted to do was play competitive golf against the best players in the world.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • World
  • Best
  • Golf

• 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.

  

  Hans Haacke
  • Art
  • Society
  • Learn

• Illness has always brought me nearer to a state of grace.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Always
  • Grace
  • State

• The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

  

  Carlo Goldoni
  • World
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• 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.

  

  Daniel Boulud
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I don't need adult supervision.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Need
  • Adult
  • Supervision

• 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.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • World
  • America

• Being the Children's Laureate has been educational, sometimes hectic, but most of all, great fun.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Great
  • Children
  • Fun

• Books are humanity in print.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Humanity
  • Books
  • Print

• 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.

  

  Danger Mouse
  • Love
  • Like
  • Ideas

• 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.

  

  Iman
  • Happy
  • Fashion
  • Race

• Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Faith

• 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.

  

  Adam Smith
  • Great

• 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.

  

  Brian Goldman
  • Good
  • Live
  • Exercise

• Comedy lives on in the web and TV, but nobody's pressing comedy albums anymore.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Comedy

• At some point in your career, maybe you, too, have made the life-altering decision to start anew. If so, you know first-hand how exciting, challenging, and sometimes disorienting the first 30, 60, 90 days can be.

  

  Angela Ahrendts
  • Life
  • Career
  • Hand

• In primary school when I was 6-7 years old, I always go to theater with my uncle, and I don't know why I like the atmosphere, dark only. The screen has some lighting, that kind of things, you can see the movie star and so that's why I like movies.

  

  Andrew Lau
  • School
  • Why
  • Movie

• My head-dress was a bugle-band like the border to my gown, and a flower of Mrs Tilson’s. I depended upon hearing something of the evening from Mr. W. K., and am very well satisfied with his notice of me - 'A pleasing looking young woman' - that must do; one cannot pretend to anything better now; thankful to have it continued a few years longer!

  

  Jane Austen
  • Band
  • Flower
  • Thankful

• Ron allowed us to see right away the private piece of a person about to become very public. I suspect we're going to see more of her very private world - Laura's private experience. I'm not sure yet how public she's going to be about the actions she's going to have to take.

  

  Mary McDonnell
  • World
  • She
  • Experience

• I have been the hugest HBO fan since I was 3, watching programming that I had no business watching as a child.

  

  Brian Tyree Henry
  • Business

• I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead