Barrett Brown Quotes
The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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We got to know the competition very well. In the '50s popcorn made a big growth in sales. Our main push was to produce the best quality and sell in quality retail outlets.
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The latest technology is not always good for anything except to the producers of the technology.
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The L.A Trilogy is a series of three novels starring Ray, a robot detective, and his boss, a computer called Googol. Set in an alternative version of 1960s Los Angeles, each book will be more or less standalone but together will form an overarching story arc with 'Brisk Money' as the origin story.
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I remember when the palm trees were short and Tomorrowland was modern.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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The problem with pity parties is very few people come, and those who do don't bring presents.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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I like fighting. I get into rows all the time.
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I used to play hooky from school so I could watch cooking shows.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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I was born in an Ilokano village called Cabugawan. Most of the houses in it were roofed with thatch, pan-aw, a species of wild grass.
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We, the artists, make the stuff they sell and they're like ticks on our backs, sucking the life out of us.
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The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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The greater the bureaucratization of public life, the greater will be the attraction of violence. In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can represent grievances, on whom the pressures of power can be exerted. Bureaucracy is the form of government in which everybody is deprived of political freedom, of the power to act; for the rule by Nobody is not no-rule, and where all are equally powerless we have a tyranny without a tyrant.
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Never underestimate the power of human stupidity, especially when it comes to bureaucrats in a government who has no clueabout money matters.
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The US government decided today that because I did such a good job investigating the cyber-industrial complex, they’re now going to send me to investigate the prison-industrial complex.
