Jon Postel Quotes
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Before I had my child, animals were my life. I slept with four dogs in my bed.
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We discovered a mechanism which is like the garbage machine of the body. We need to remove damaged proteins and create new ones in their place, and we discovered the machine that does this.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I'm a strong proponent of green tech for anyone who can afford it, having spent the last 40 years working toward achieving a smaller and smaller eco-impact for myself.
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We're really blessed that we've been as well received as we have been.
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I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.
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I have no literary fears.
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I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives.
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I'm a bit of a control freak.
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If you want to go east, don't go west.
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The way to develop decisiveness is to start right where you are, with the very next question you face.
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As a kid, I used to love to play baseball and be in Little League and sleep outside with my friends and do all those kind of things.
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Songs and minstrels. And the hymns of angels, Will raise from the graves, They will entreat from the beginning. They will entreat together publicly, On so great a destiny. Those whom the sea has destroyed Will make a great shout, At the time when cometh He, that will separate them.
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I indeed do respect all people for the positives in their life. Sadly, there comes a time of diminishing returns in the balance. At the end of the day, my respect is reserved for those solidly in the asset column of mankind.
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.
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Bureaucracy has murdered people in the greater New Orleans area and bureaucracy needs to stand trial before Congress today. So I'm asking Congress, please investigate this now. Take whatever idiot they have at the top of whatever agency, give me a better idiot. Give me a caring idiot. Give me a sensitive idiot. Just don't give me the same idiot.
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Being called very, very difficult is the beginning of success. Until you're called very, very difficult you're really nobody at all.
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So few of us really think. What we do is rearrange our prejudges.
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I wholly promote the omelette as a meal whatever the occasion, especially your last one.
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I would favor a law that no one could ever buy a gun.
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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.