John Perry Barlow Quotes

It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead

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• The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.

  

  Hans Hofmann
  • Art
  • Act
  • Possibilities

• No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Thinking
  • Words
  • Saying

• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• The Supreme Court's only armor is the cloak of public trust; its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society.

  

  Irving R. Kaufman
  • History
  • Society
  • Trust

• I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Feeling

• My first book, 'In Praise of Slowness,' examines how the world got stuck in fast-forward and chronicles a global trend towards putting on the brakes. That trend is called the Slow movement. 'Slow' in this context does not mean doing everything at a snail's pace. It means doing everything at the right speed.

  

  Carl Honore
  • World
  • Book
  • Speed

• Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Man
  • Government
  • Decent

• I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Famous

• Many are the names of God and infinite the forms through which He may be approached.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • God
  • May
  • Through

• All working parents should have paid family leave. That's one of many reasons I'm working to elect Hillary Clinton. She has a plan to guarantee workers - men and women - up to 12 weeks of paid family leave to care for a new child or a seriously ill family member.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Time
  • World
  • Reality

• My dad is afraid of my laugh.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Dad
  • Laugh
  • Afraid

• Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Always
  • Credit
  • Credit Card

• As a kid, I collected 'Vogue' every month for three years.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Kid
  • Three
  • Month

• Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Alien
  • Seen
  • Whatever

• One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Community

• I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure. I'm completely repudiating the idea that government has to get out of the way.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Thinking
  • Growth
  • Environmental

• You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.

  

  D'Brickashaw Ferguson
  • Best
  • Always
  • Do Your Best

• It's things I wouldn't normally do in my real life, so when I go to work and get to beat people up and shoot guns and get waterboarded, those are things I find completely interesting.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I admit that some of my ideas may have turned out to be pessimistic in nature.

  

  Sergio Leone
  • Nature
  • Ideas
  • Pessimistic

• My personal experience in Ninawa Province has been that, at the most fundamental level, people don't really care if it's a Shiite, a Sunni, a Kurd, or a Turkoman that's providing them security as long as that force treats them with respect.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Long
  • Experience

• The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.

  

  Arthur Helps
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Value

• My music is about a joyful experience. I've learned that if you can affect other people, you should.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • People
  • Music
  • Experience

• It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.

  

  John Perry Barlow Grateful Dead
  • Experience
  • Free