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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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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We are often insane with happiness. We are also very unhappy for reasons neither of us can do anything about. Like being separated.
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I'd get kicked out of buildings all day long, people would rip up my business card in my face. It's a humbling business to be in. But I knew I could sell and I knew I wanted to sell something I had created. I cut the feet out of those pantyhose and I knew I was on to something. This was it.
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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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People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.
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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.