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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I have nothing to do with counting the votes.
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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
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Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
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Being civilized means that one keeps one's words unrelated to one's thoughts, when necessary.
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The cutter has really helped me stay in the game longer and helped me get past the five, six innings a little more consistently.
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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
