Abbie Hoffman Quotes
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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They're always so serious, the orchestras, you know? It's always a fun contrast of that song and the genre of music. And me.
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For me, I love California. I feel like it's my second home in that I moved out by choice at eighteen. It gave me opportunities that I didn't have anywhere else.
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I understood from an early age what being competitive means.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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Whatever is not commonly seen is condemned as alien.
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Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence.
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If you look at the carrying capacity of agricultural areas throughout the world, their ecological habitats are changing. So I think we're looking at - in our lifetime - great collapses of food services.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I think that's a great opportunity, to pick a script where you can build up a good skill. I think the main thing I look for when I look at scripts is if it's inspirational. If it's something that teenagers can relate to. And is it something that the audience is going to get something out of. If not, then it's really not worth doing.
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If you take all the factories in the world today, they could make all the parts necessary to build more factories like themselves. So, in a sense, we have a self-replicating industrial system today, but it would take a tremendous effort to copy what we already have.
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In a lot of places in the United States and certainly even more places around the world, the image of the cowboy has become, for some people, a negative one. The word 'cowboy' implies a strong, stubborn individual whose individualism depends on pulling down other people's individualism.
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I think the power of the platforms is outstripping the size of the audience. We can't charge $150 for a game. And when the best-selling game of all time has sold only 20 million copies at $60, do the math!
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I believe we need a more opportunistic and democratic approach to lunar exploration, now that we're shifting from U.S. government-sponsored space exploration to private expeditions.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it.
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Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right
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The open society is one in which men have learned to be to some extent critical of taboos, and to base decisions on the authority of their own intelligence.
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This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
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Physics is becoming too difficult for the physicists.
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We love what we can't have, and we can't have what we love.
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Try to take your vision and ego as far away from the song as possible. Give as much respect as you can to the song and the initial inspiration.
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The unavoidable spread of South Korean capital and information will put the North Korean government in a tight spot, to put it mildly.
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I think this is a pile of shit, while John Sinclair rots in prison.
