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 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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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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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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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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I would never call a neighbor an enemy. But I would request the neighbor to be a good neighbor, to see that the neighbor's interest is a stable prosperous neighbor, a neighbor that is doing well.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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People should look at the government as 'us,' not as 'them' and not in terror.
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On a bus ride through China, my family and I had talked for hours before a police officer boarded to conduct an inspection. My mother and brother couldn't speak Chinese, so they pretended to be deaf and mute, and none of the Chinese passengers said anything, sparing us.
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When mankind goes back to treating people the way you want to be treated, things will settle, I don't see that happening. I treat people the way I want to be treated, which makes me odd.
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My days are in the yellow leaf;The flowers and fruits of Love are gone;The worm - the canker, and the griefAre mine alone!
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Sometimes you have to put your balls on the line.
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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.
