Jon Postel Quotes
I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
Jon Postel
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
E. L. Konigsburg
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Your barber always knows everything that goes on in the town, doesn't he?
Adam Peaty
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brave. I never get over being thankful for that - for the courage of my readers.
Barbara Kingsolver
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I tell people marriage is a compromise, and so are renovations.
Candice Olson
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I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.
Gallant
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When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned it, because he didn't win it because of his friendship with the writers. I guess in that way, I'm proud to be in this company that way.
Eddie Murray
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
Jack Nicklaus
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Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.
Otto Dix
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The conviction of our Ukrainian nation is embedded in the pages of its history.
Viktor Yushchenko
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I agree with President Roosevelt, and generations since, that American seniors deserve better than poverty.
Hank Johnson
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I'm extremely introverted. I used to think it was shyness, but I got over that, so it must be door No. 2. It's still hard for me to be away from home much, and I have to make sure I get lots of time alone in my room when I'm touring.
Karin Slaughter
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We woke up when we heard the rain, but we didn't think there was any danger. Then this big oak tree fell on the tent.
Eric Johnson
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No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
Bram Stoker
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But peace, too, is a living thing and like all life it must wax and wane, accommodate, withstand trials, and undergo changes.
Hermann Hesse
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Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Love is transient even on a very personal level. We lose everyone that we love. Sometimes we drift apart and sometimes we die.
Mohsin Hamid
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I got involved when I was a graduate student at UCLA when UCLA was the first site on the net.
Jon Postel
