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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I think it's cool people love to hate me.
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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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I'm only here on Earth to serve God. I never had a career. I don't care about commercialism. I have a ministry and I'll fight for the ministry.
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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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I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
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It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.
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The three chief causes of divorce are men, women, and marriage.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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The transpersonal is more awe-inspiring, more exciting than the thing we confuse it for.
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Everyone should have ten megabits and then the web will be a wonderful thing.
