John Perry Barlow Quotes
So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
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I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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I'm a proud family man.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Pat Riley, Dave Checketts and Ernie Grunfeld - they brought the Knicks back to the glory days. It started with Rick Pitino. We took our first step with him, making the playoffs. When Pat came in we just kicked the door open.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I think it takes 30 years to build a luxury brand.
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I don't think there is much American music.
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I acted when I was a real little kid. My mother was an actress in a Miami theater company comprised of actors from Cuba like her and I was the default kid.
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Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.
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Kitchens are so important. They're the heart of everything.
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Everyone around me was super-cool and laid back and skinny and tan and volleyball-y, and I was just this neurotic kid who was singing 'Annie Get Your Gun.'
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Extreme poverty threatens people's right to life itself and makes impossible the enjoyment of the rights and freedoms essential to a humane way of life.
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When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and difference in that person's life. Encouragement really does make a difference.
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The opportunities I've had to play really complex characters - which haven't been a lot, but some - you never get over them.
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I love getting presents. And awards. I'd do whatever they told me to do.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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It's no secret that I wear a kippa.
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With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.
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I'm a very secretive person.
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There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.
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Justice is like a train that is nearly always late.
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There's a sureness to good writing even when what's being written about doesn't make all that much sense. It's the sureness of the so-called seat of an accomplished horseback rider or a sailor coming about in a strong wind. The words have both muscle and grace, familiarity and surprise.
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So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.
