Barrett Brown Quotes

Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

Barrett Brown

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• I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Happy
  • Myself
  • Colleagues

• Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Still
  • Surviving
  • Greeks

• The onslaught of new and complex information, the academic and thinktank cults of expertise, not to mention the impossibility of bohemia in the age of high rents, have conspired to assassinate the public intellectual.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • High
  • Age
  • New

• New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a good goddamn about what it left behind. It was like the city that Lot left, and it would dissolve if it ever began looking backward over its own shoulder. Two pillars of salt. Long Island and New Jersey.

  

  Colum McCann
  • Good
  • Long
  • City

• Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

  

  Eric Schmidt
  • Believe
  • Business
  • Model

• Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Long
  • Death
  • Fear

• I love being down at Occupy Wall Street. The sincerity, the youth involvement, the desire for better, is palpable and moving. There is true caring, sharing, and refreshingly naive hope.

  

  Elayne Boosler
  • True
  • Hope
  • Desire

• Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

  

  Billy Joel
  • True
  • Dream
  • Vienna

• A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories.

  

  Bert Williams
  • Up
  • Real
  • Black

• I feel I have lived during one of the best eras of racing there ever was. From Rudolph, Wis., to Daytona, it has increased 1,000-fold. When I first started racing you were looked down upon. Now, you're a celebrity and I'm not just talking about myself. Even if racing hadn't gotten so popular, I would still have done it.

  

  Dick Trickle
  • Done
  • Popular
  • Celebrity

• Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Prejudice
  • Commerce
  • Cures

• Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.

  

  Pablo Escobar
  • Life
  • Time
  • Bad

• From nothing I have created another entirely new world.

  

  Janos Bolyai
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Created

• Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.

  

  Max Roach
  • Should
  • Gone
  • Mirrors

• I love playing darker roles, or roles with meat. I feel very comfortable in that environment. I don't know why. I don't know what that says about me. I really enjoy doing complicated characters.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Know
  • Feel
  • Enjoy

• I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Wine
  • Dessert
  • Pills

• We believe in the fundamental principles of the European economy.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Economy
  • Principles

• Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • People
  • Time
  • Good Will

• We look at young black kids with a scowl on their face, walking a certain way down the block with their sweatpants dangling, however, with their hoodies on. And folks think that this is a show of power or a show of force. But I know, because I've been among those kids, it ultimately is fear.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Kids
  • Power
  • Black

• Moonlight is sculpture.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Sculpture
  • Moonlight

• For the Christian, heaven is where Jesus is. We do not need to speculate on what heaven will be like. It is enough to know that we will be for ever with Him.

  

  William Barclay
  • Christian
  • Jesus
  • Heaven

• If you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Needs
  • My Life
  • Steps

• And it was to this city, whenever I went home, that I always knew I must return, for it was mistress of one's wildest hopes, protector of one's deepest privacies. It was half insane with its noise, violence, and decay, but it gave one the tender security of fulfillment.

  

  William Weaks Morris
  • Home
  • City
  • Return

• Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.

  

  Barrett Brown
  • Advantage
  • Politeness
  • Concession