John Thorn Quotes

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

John Thorn

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I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

Jenny Holzer

TryingAlwaysAudienceContentBring

At one point, I was blogging prodigiously, in the late '90s; and I was getting, like, millions of pages because I was, like, one of the only people writing about web design, and I was always writing about web design.

Jeffrey Zeldman

PeopleWritingDesignLateAlways

Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

Mel Brooks

LifeDeathThinkYouLookJump

Even if the economy crashes, we will still burn oil.

Robert Kiyosaki

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The United States has the largest and best navy in the world.

Robert Zubrin

BestWorldNavyUnitedUnited States

I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

Johnny Knoxville

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Journalism is straying into entertainment. The lines between serious news segments, news entertainment, and news comedy are blurring.

Drew Curtis

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It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Chris Kyle

LifeGodPatriotismJobWarPeople

I absolutely knew that I wanted to play role-playing games when I saw a friend of mine playing 'Bard's Tale 2' on his Commodore 64.

Chris Avellone

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I have to say that my dad's face is very malleable. He's barely got any cartilage in his face. I think I maybe inherited that Play-Doh-like physicality from him.

Claire Danes

FaceThinkSayHimGotHe

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.

Anthony J. D'Angelo

LeaderYouPositionOrderHold

I wanted to take a stand against what I think was not so well established then but is thoroughly well established now, which is the substitution for a real sense of a country of a hideous distortion which you can sell to the people called 'heritage'.

Peter Porter

PeopleThinkStandYouHeritageNow

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