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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I got interested in coaching while I played at St. Joseph's. Because we played a national schedule, we played teams coached by Nat Holman, Joe Lapchick, Hank Iba, and others. I could see the impact the coach had on their teams, and I thought, 'That's a pretty good thing to do.'
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There was no arguing with a man's faith in the legends of his childhood.
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I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list. And I'm not the only one who feels this way. Man has been building cities since the year oughty-ought, just to get away from this stuff.
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When a builder builds he clears the ground for his new foundations. Then he sees that the basic structure will support the whole. Should we not also clear the mind - at least that part of it that we can reach - of the ruins of past thinking, before building our palace of dharma which will one day reach the sky.
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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.
