Eric S. Raymond Quotes
Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
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I'm interested in doing everything and anything that I can to squeeze that creativity out of my brain. I guess I'm sort of a performance rat.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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You learn a whole lot more about a person if they have bad breaks and all those kind of things.
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I had to be sure we were doing something tasteful.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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Benedict Cumberbatch is very beautiful.
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I think it was just an opera. Now, you go to opera, you expect to see and hear what the opera is. So, it was Catfish Row. It was singers. Marvelous voices. It didn't make no difference what color they were.
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The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
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Kids will come into my boxing gym with no discipline, and then you teach them how to focus and love what they're doing, which then travels outside into their home and work life.
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Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?
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In some ways, the '60s were a reaction to the '50s and the intensity of the Cold War.
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Whenever I write something, I always want to make sure that what I write is defensible.
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If you're lucky enough to find a guy with a lot of head and a lot of heart, he's never going to come off the field second.
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There is not a man who does not get senile by the time he reaches sixty. And when one thinks that he will not be senile, he is already so.
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There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
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I soon saw that feminists who supported the 'Primary Parent Theory' were not in favor of equality of opportunity, but of unequal opportunism.
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It is my job in life to travel all roads, so that some may take the road less travelled, and others the road more travelled, and all have a pleasant day.
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I did 'Impromptu,' which was a thrill and a horror all at once - my first movie and having to do it in Paris, and my wife wrote it, and I had some difficulties on the set, blah, blah, blah.
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Some memories are made out of the paper, they burn like a high school cigarette. Some leave without a “see you later”. Turn the page and pretty soon you forget. And others are made of concrete, others are made of steel. No, you can’t get away from the way they made you feel.
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Hark! Hark! my soul, angelic songs are swellingO’er earth’s green fields and ocean’s wave-beat shore;How sweet the truth those blessed strains are tellingOf that new life when sin shall be no more.
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Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.
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Do you know what happens when an Arabian woman dances? She does not dance: she protests, she loves, she cries, she makes love, she dreams, she goes away from her reality, to her own world, where love is really meant and she does not want to come back, because that is her reality.
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Berkeley hackers liked to see themselves as rebels against soulless corporate empires.
