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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That's all that matters in music: fun.
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My father quite honestly played no role in my decision to become an actor.
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The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.
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Nothing worse than reading a love scene written by your father.
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Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs.
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Being in the limelight has its minuses.
