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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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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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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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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Disruption is a process, not an event, and innovations can only be disruptive relative to something else.
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I can eat whatever I want, and I don't get over 145 pounds. A lot of the guys who fight at 125 pounds, they get pretty big, and when it gets closer to the fight, they're walking around at 135 pounds. For me, I try to stay the same weight I typically walk around at.
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I wasn't the biggest hip-hop fan, because I had to listen to whatever my parents listened to, so growing up, it was a lot of Dolly Parton, Elvis, and Whitney Houston. When they finally put a TV in my room and I got to listen to MTV Jams I was like: 'Here I am!'
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Don't be afraid to take liberties with this music. Try and put some of yourself into it.
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Companies should be able to share specific threat information with the government without the prospect of lawsuits hanging over their head.
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I've learned that, as an actor, I have a responsibility to my audience.
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Our platform emphasizes that a vibrant, free and fair market is essential to economic growth.
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I think that humor is part of what saves us from despair.
