John Perry Barlow Quotes
The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
Quotes to Explore
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
-
All those things you hear about networks trying to stifle creativity - CW lets creators create and gives us freedom.
-
I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
-
I had such an amazing time filming 'Major Movie Star.' I loved everyone in the cast. They all brought their own spirit to the film, and I hope that is what will be seen on screen.
-
Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
-
A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice.
-
Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
-
A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
-
Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
-
Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
-
I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
-
Of course it's fantastic to have bands formed in garages, but there is a market for other types of music.
-
I've always thought John Travolta is one of the greatest movie stars Hollywood has ever produced.
-
I was shocked when 'The Hobbit' ended where it ended. I wasn't paying attention to what they were doing; I didn't know they had another movie, and I couldn't believe it was when the dragon came out.
-
I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
-
I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
-
Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
-
I didn't have a very religious family.
-
I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
-
Country life is different from city life, but I think it was good for me. Working on the farm, I got a balance in my life.
-
I love fighting for the UFC. It's an amazing company. I've done a lot of great things, and they've done a lot of great things for my career.
-
I'm a workaholic because I don't want to not work. When you come from basically nothing and you have so much good things happening for you sometimes you have to sacrifice.
-
The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.
