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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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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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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To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.
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We have a tax code whose complications and levels of unfairness and levels of choosing people to give tax breaks to and choosing people to deny them to is thousands of pages long with endless complications and unbelievable manipulations by everybody.
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'What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?' - Russell: 'Not much.'
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The majority of unskilled investors stubbornly hold onto their losses when the losses are small and reasonable. They could get out cheaply, but being emotionally involved and human, they keep waiting and hoping until their loss gets much bigger and costs them dearly.
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I think I'm a better collaborator, in seeing the bigger picture and trying to just help that, and not be so self-centered in whatever my task is, which is being an actor.
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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.
