Jon Postel Quotes
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The mission of the press is to spread culture while destroying the attention span.
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Your friends will be as careless with your life as they are with their own.
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A lot of people tell me, 'You are from North; how do you manage to get along in the South?' I don't know what to say to them. I've always felt at home here, and by learning to speak Telugu, my connection with the place has gotten that much stronger.
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Deacon Jones has been the most inspirational person in my football career.
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I've never returned to the locations. I do remember certain days more clearly than others and certain locations with a sense of nostalgia. Perhaps one day, I'll bring my daughter to see them, if she's interested.
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I do everything that everybody else does.
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I was working for the CIA and prohibited from speaking publicly.
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I realized I have an appetite for stunts. I learned how to do them myself.
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R&B is the one thing that has influenced every kind of music. Every artist that there is, from those that are sung the most to Adele - you know, she was so influenced by so many R&B artists and soul music - it's clear in her writing that that's where it comes from.
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I feel like there's a hunger in the culture now for the live experience maybe as a counterpoint to the more sort of synthetic lives that we've been living.
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I admire James Franco. I admire somebody like Jack Nicholson. Anyone who just does movies for the sake of making movies and takes big risks.
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That's one thing you hear in my voice today. I could yodel from one octave to another octave. It always fascinated me.
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India is the second biggest defence procurer in the world after the U.S.
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When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so excited, but didn't know what the rules were. What should I get him, or was I even supposed to get him something?
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I'm part of a speech therapy course called the Maguire Programme. It isn't a cure; it's something you need to maintain and work on. I get days where I find things more difficult than others.
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Vulnerability is the strongest state to be in. How boring would it be if we were constantly dominant or constantly submissive?
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There is very little room for relaxation, but as long as I capitalize on those brief moments of peace, I'm okay with that.
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Like Leibniz's possible worlds, most men are only equally entitled pretenders to existence. There are few existences.
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King Lear is a working model of the process of denudation by which men translate themselves from a world of roles to a world of jobs. (p. 16)
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I don't think Bono decided to be ambitious, he just is. But if this country ever ran out of electricity, just shove a plug up his hole and it would run for a week.
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At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
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Yes, it's true - I love the roar of the crowd. When the fans are with you, their voices come together in a big booming rush of sound that you can actually feel in your body - almost like a wave that lifts you and carries you past your own limits.
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With everything it has to offer, Las Vegas is an obvious destination for tourists, as proven by the over 40 million visitors the city welcomes per year.
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Being in the limelight has its minuses.
