Yochai Benkler Quotes
One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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There are two kinds of ham: raw and cooked. Raw ham is cured with salt and/or smoke over time; cooked ham is boiled. Every culture that makes ham has its own unique and various methods.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I've been in this business for 40 years - you do a show, and you don't know what's going to come of it.
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I learn from Larry Ellison every day. I've said this before: how is it to work with someone who thinks out of the box? Larry doesn't see the walls at all; he does not see the box. He is an absolute, true visionary. And to be honest, I always find myself in a box! I'm comfy in my box. I've furnished it; it's lovely.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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When I was a kid, I didn't know how I got into acting.
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I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler.
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In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better.
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Being in a wheelchair for 30 years. I'm not whining about it because I don't dwell on things I can't do anything about, you know. I never really think about until somebody mentions it. I did take a bullet.
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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America can enjoy a vital, fully functioning government, with all the benefits provided by Texas, while reducing Texas at the same time.
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As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I tell folks when I walk into a room, when I leave, you may not like me - you may not agree with me - but by golly, you will not misunderstand where I am. I get things done.
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Successful health reform must not just make health insurance affordable, affordable health insurance has to make health care affordable.
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The true adventurer goes forth aimless and uncalculating to meet and greet unknown fate.
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You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about.
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I believe the accepted model of capitalism that demands endless growth deserves the blame for the destruction of nature, and it should be displaced. Failing that, I try to work with those companies and help them change the way they think about our resources.
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One of the problems of writing and working and looking at the Internet is that it's very hard to separate fashion from deep change.
