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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When it comes to clothing, I've got one really hard and fast rule: never wear beige. That's such an old-lady colour.
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Even if they're not Asian or super rich... everyone has a nagging mother. Everyone has that obnoxious uncle, or that cousin who's a bit too snobby.
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Keeping your artistic self as creative as possible is a balancing act.
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If you can imagine it, we can make it.
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[Ho Chi Minh] was always conscious that conditions in China and Vietnam were not always the same. He "kowtowed" to the Chinese - as he had to the Soviet Union - in order to receive their assistance, but he quietly worked to limit those forms of influence of which he did not approve (such as the harsh forms of land reform and the Great Leap Forward). Unfortunately, he was not always successful in fending off those forms of external advice that he didn't agree with.
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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
