Jon Postel Quotes
There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
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Women can't be afraid to look like action heroes. It's not always pretty, but when it's on the screen, it translates well to the audience.
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
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Countries that intervene militarily rarely do so out of pure altruism.
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A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
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I don't think there's a perfect time to have kids. I think first you have to find the perfect person.
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Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.
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I've done the Rolling Stones eating each other.
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Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.
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The funniest line in English is 'Get it?' When you say that, everyone chortles.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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I have an instinct to want to be part of a group of people. I feel safe there. That's why I was in school for so long.
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Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
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You'll see the most perfect person, and you are like, 'God, she's, like, perfect.' And then she'll tell you everything that's not perfect. Everyone has their own special set of problems - in their own minds.
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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
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It proved easier to buy the farm to get the mineral rights than to buy the coal rights alone.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
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With sociology one can do anything and call it work.
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I touch God in my song as the hill touched the far-away sea with its waterfall.
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Shameless is a show I would watch even if I wasn’t on it, it’s my kind of show.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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I've always had an idealistic streak about storytelling in that I believe we owe more to audiences than repeatedly bludgeoning them over the head while stealing their lunch money. We owe them inspiration. That's why I'm more interested now in creating new heroes than hooking up jumper cables to old ones.
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There was one issue on which there seemed to be almost unanimity: the Internet should not be managed by any government, national or multinational.
