John Perry Barlow Quotes
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My dad was one of four children. His three siblings were female, and he loved and protected them.
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A novel is not a rant.
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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.
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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.
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In 2007 I was at Facebook, and we looked at some of the social networks in Asia, and they were full of games.
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It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
Gail Devers
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It's essential for a fighter to go separately and just focus on training away from everybody else.
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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.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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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.
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Unfortunately, our history has abundant examples of patriotism being used to hurt those who express views in disagreement with that of the majority.
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There are a lot of people who can be classified as heroes and do great things and inspire me.
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Poetry is no more, no less than a mosaic of words, so great exactness is required for each one.
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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.
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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.
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How many people didn't get a part who would have been better than the person who got the part? Thousands.
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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
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I have learned to listen and to hone my instincts to be perceptive and be receptive to change, to constantly live in ambiguity.
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'T is not for nothing that we life pursue;It pays our hopes with something still that's new.
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If you take every challenge everyone has in their life and multiply it in severity you get what it's like in the life of an actor.
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Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
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The minute you step into a job where you have to be at all tough and assertive, that's when the mischief happens. And you're not allowed to be assertive and feminine.
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In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.
