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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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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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 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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If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience.
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I like to cook, walk on the beach, go to concerts and look at fine art.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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Control your expenses better than your competition. This is where you can always find the competitive advantage.
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I believe that a man can only be useful to his country when he can look at it clearly.
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If the amount of hours spent on FarmVille were spent on actual farming, imagine what we could achieve.
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I'm a working writer; this is my job. So it matters to me that it's good. I sweat over every word. I don't just vomit this stuff up. It's agony. The only thing that comes close is childbirth, except it's like being in labor for eighteen months.
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This is a great challenge for H&M whose trademark is cheap clothes at good quality ... The fact it's cheap means there's a risk people buy and throw away, or buy too much.
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I'm fortunate in having journalism as a sideline to pay the bills, and I essentially do it in order to take as long as I want with books.
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But I do have a computer at home and a pretty good ISDN connection.
