Mitch Kapor Quotes
People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
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A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns. If his patterns are more permanent than theirs, it is because they are made with ideas.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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I accept you, and you get the same respect from me whether you are black, white, gay straight, Asian, bisexual, Australian, tall, fat, whatever it is. We are all people, and I look at the people of the world the same way, as my brothers and sisters.
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Being in the spotlight, you know, you tend to kind of forget who you are. And being an artist... it could be a very superficial job. It could be very pretentious as well.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
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A bad system will beat a good person every time.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Richard Nixon was the best thing that ever happened to journalism. I mean this guy was wonderful. Just when you thought he could get no worse, he got worse.
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Touring is an incredibly isolated situation. I don't know how people tour for years on end. You find a lot of people who can't stop touring, and it's because they don't know how to come back into life. It's sort of unreal.
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You might say that the very best that can happen is to have energetic opponents.
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Overnight successes are generally years in the making. And most progress is made in isolation, far from the public eye.
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I don't think I do look like an A-Lister. I'm more interested in being comfortable in my own skin than trying to be somebody I'm not. Gimme jeans, an old T-shirt, cowboy boots and a baseball cap any day.
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If I screw up, I'm gonna say, 'You know what? I really screwed up.' That's all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That's just the way it works.
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People are hungry for community. They're hungry for meaning in a society that is oriented around the production and consumption of consumer goods.
