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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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 was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or not, when writing it, I never had the word 'tragedy' in my head - I wasn't trying to write a dark book at all.
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If frogs could fly... well we'd still be in this mess, but wouldn't it be neat?
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I don't see myself as someone that brings a lot of luggage.
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As you may know, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, or MCC, awards grants only to countries which rule justly, promote economic freedom, and invest in their people.
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Gay people are nice people. Just like any other people. And gay people love reggae music. Yeah. And gay people love Jamaica.
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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.
