David "Doc" Searls Quotes
Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.
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My parents didn't agree with what was going on, you know, with the communists coming in, Fidel Castro. I didn't see the reason why I needed to go back there and be a part of that exhibition.
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To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
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I'm like a sight gag.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
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Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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'American Idol,' for me, is fizzling out. They can't package me, man... I'm an artist that's created this concept but used the 'American Idol' machine as a marketing tool.
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At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.
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God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.
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I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
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Relationships are hard, so you have to know what type of man you want by your side and what their values are, what is important in his life.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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I think, specifically with the horror genre, you have to make it very believable because it can come across ridiculous.
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The true art of memory is the art of attention.
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Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
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In every victory, Let it be said of me...My source of strength, My source of hope... Is Christ alone.
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I have come to know that adversity really means the things in life that challenge us and cause us to work with devotion and courage to overcome. I once stood on a street in Trondheim, Norway, looking up at a statue of a Viking. There came to my mind at that time a fable of the Norsemen that when a man won a victory over another, the strength of the conquered went over into his veins. Therefore, in this sense adversity is good, for it produces in us a source of strength as we learn to conquer our weaknesses.
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In time of crisis, we summon up our strength. Then, if we are lucky, we are able to call every resource, every forgotten image that can leap to our quickening, every memory that can make us know our power. And this luck is more than it seems to be: it depends on the long preparation of the self to be used.
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Think of the Nets infrastructure as a source of natural building resources. Linux is not growing on the trees - it is the trees.
