Paul Gillmor Quotes
We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.
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I really try at least to come back and answer the question as to whether that was really the best way to do that and was I really thinking straight and how did my opponents behave and how did the judges behave was needed.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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Scientists at MIT and engineering schools all across America say that they could improve the fuel economy standards for the existing set of vehicles by 10 miles per gallon using existing technology, without compromising safety or comfort at all.
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I am a leader in my own world. That's enough for me.
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I built the business exactly the way my mother built and ran her family. I wanted a replication of the big, happy family I grew up in. I wanted happy people having fun.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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If I've learned one thing, it's 'don't tell the truth.' Lies keep you together.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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Antidepressants are very good, but it's a clinical cosh, really. Sometimes you have to be knocked out, just to stop; when you're in that state all you want to do is just sleep, and rest your body and your brain.
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Clean living is the cardinal principle in the lives of the world's greatest athletes, as the phenomenal performances of these outstanding characters will obviously show.
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I'm not quite sure how I would do babysitting.
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I feel so fortunate and lucky I don't have to be a waitress or a bartender or a personal trainer.
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I'm only lookin' for a fantasy, an interlude from reality.
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I loved to read books in the free world, and there was a lot of time to sit around and do nothing in prison. When you read, it opens up your mind; it helped us take our minds away from where we were.
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Stop the blame game. Stop! Stop looking out the window and look in the mirror!
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Well, my piano's really beautiful. I actually have two pianos. I have a Yamaha upright from the '60s that's blond, wood, and black, and I also have one from the '20s from Chicago - not a well-known brand or anything.
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Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.
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We are putting more and more power into a system which is less and less able to carry it reliably.
