John Perry Barlow Quotes
The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
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The next phase of the journey is to move from speculation to actual use cases - people getting into Bitcoin because they want to use it.
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I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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War is over if you want it.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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Stay true to your own voice, and don't worry about needing to be liked or what anybody else thinks. Keep your eyes on your own paper.
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We call ourselves a dog's 'master' - but who ever dared to call himself the 'master' of a cat? We own a dog - he is with us as a slave and inferior because we wish him to be. But we entertain a cat - he adorns our hearth as a guest, fellow-lodger, and equal because he wishes to be there.
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Whatever we put our attention on will grow stronger in our life.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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I have all of these lives that I want the music to live, but at the end of the day, it's out there.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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Everyone wants to see someone shoot someone in the head.
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I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.
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What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hindusim, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor.
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The entertainment industry is as it always has been. It's a rough bunch of people and a rough industry.
