Barrett Brown Quotes
Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
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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.
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Before the Greeks were the Tamils. The Tamils are one of the oldest civilizations that's still surviving.
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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.
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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.
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Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.
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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.
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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.
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Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.
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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.
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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.
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Commerce is the cure for the most destructive prejudices.
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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.
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From nothing I have created another entirely new world.
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Music mirrors where we should go, have gone and can go. Music is an abstraction.
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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.
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I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills.
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There are some things we do much better than computers, but since most of chess is tactically based they do many things better than humans. And this imbalance remains. I no longer have any issues. It's bit like asking an astronomer, does he mind that a telescope does all the work. He is used to it. It is just an incredible tool that you can use.
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We believe in the fundamental principles of the European economy.
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Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will.
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Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
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There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth.
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It may well be that creativity is the last unfair advantage we're legally allowed to take over our competitors.
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Politeness is wasted on the dishonest, who will always take advantage of any well-intended concession.
