John Perry Barlow Quotes

In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead

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• My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Children
  • Dad
  • Loved

• I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Decision
  • Religion
  • Thought

• A novel is not a rant.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Novel
  • Rant

• Throughout American history many of our social gains and much of our progress toward democracy were made possible by the active intervention of the federal government.

  

  Harold Washington
  • American
  • History
  • Democracy

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Games
  • Facebook
  • Networks

• It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

  Gail Devers
  • People
  • Believe
  • You

• It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Focus
  • Training
  • Fighter

• Basically we just created our own label, but again we just did it to document our own music and create our own thing, so the major labels were just always out of our picture, we're not interested.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Music
  • Always
  • Picture

• I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Music
  • Country
  • Sometimes

• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Forest
  • Tongue

• We needed time off from each other after our last tour because there was a lot of personal stuff we had to take care of. Eddie needed hip replacement surgery. Al needed his back worked on. And I was going to have a baby.

  

  Sammy Hagar Chickenfoot
  • Time
  • Care
  • Baby

• Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.

  

  Vic Snyder
  • History
  • Hurt
  • Patriotism

• There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Great
  • Inspire

• Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.

  

  T. E. Hulme
  • Great
  • Words
  • Poetry

• And since the day I left Milwaukee,Lyncheburg and Bourbon, FranceBeen makin' a fool out of folksJust like you,And helpin' white people dance.I am medicine and I am poison.I can help you up or make you fall.You had some of the best timesYou'll never remember with me...Alcohol.

  

  Brad Paisley
  • People
  • Up
  • Remember

• Starting in my teens, I was always standing on the corner near our apartment singing harmony with friends. We'd also go to the park and sing under the bridge near the lake for the echo. When it was cold out, we'd stand in the little heated lobby in the project's administration building, where my mom paid the rent each month.

  

  Frankie Valli Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons
  • Friends
  • Mom
  • Singing

• I play in Metallica, and I have fun in Metallica. I tell you, I am the luckiest man on the planet because we have a good time and we're happy. When we put on our guitars, we're teenagers again, and that's where the fun comes in.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Fun
  • Guitars
  • Metallica

• Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Men
  • Effort
  • Philosophy

• Ability for stupendous toil is lodged in every human spirit, a grand gift from the God of nature; but only the persevering worker knows what this latent power is able to achieve.

  

  Elias Lyman Magoon
  • Ability
  • Achieve
  • Gift

• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Friend

• ...now as we induldge, in things refined,we hide our hearts, from harder times...

  

  Billy Joel
  • Hide
  • Hard Times
  • Refined

• In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead