Jon Postel Quotes
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Americans resident in China inform us that the ballot box in their country is greatly abused for personal ends, and Chinese admirers of the American Republic have not minutely examined its defects.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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The reality of most software development is that the consequences of failure are simply nonexistent.
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I write novels, mostly historical ones, and I try hard to keep them accurate as to historical facts, milieu and flavor.
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It's funny; people get so doctrinaire about music. It should be the last thing you don't have an open mind about.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
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We collaborate together. We work with other people. We work by ourselves.
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Polling is an art as well as a science, and the art of crafting good questions is still vital.
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As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.
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We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.
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But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.