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John Perry Barlow Quotes

The one thing that I know government is good for is countervailing against monopoly. It's not great at that either, but it's the only force I know that is fairly reliable.

John Perry Barlow

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: October 3, 1947 - February 7, 2018

Topics

Good Great Government Know Monopoly

It fails everybody, pretty much, the American Dream, but people are driven by it. I don't think we're driven by the same sense of hope in Europe. We're driven by pessimism more.

Andrew Haigh

Hope American Dream People Think

There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.

Matt Lauer

Generosity Mom Always About Unspoken

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

Steve Breen

Opinion You Want Point Cartoons

To me, St. Lucia isn't just purely feel-good; there are these other juxtaposed elements as well.

St. Lucia

Me Well Just Elements Other Purely

It's technically extremely difficult to get down what you really mean, not what you think you mean, or what you think sounds good, but what's really there, what you really have to express, in words that somehow convey that meaning in an approximate way.

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala

Good Words Think Meaning You Down

I don't know how I could plan my career.

Mary Steenburgen

Plan Career Know How Could

You'd be surprised. Drummers ape each other. The way every rock n' roll record sounds like something else but not all together. Everything other drummers play, if you're playing drums, they all hear.

Miles Davis

Together You Play Rock Way Playing

I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Don Novello

Imagination Kind Follow Little Mine

The failure of Socialism since 1945 is that whilst encouraging us all, the creators of wealth, to produce less through strikes, it has caused us all to demand a higher level of our own product.

Brian Harris

Failure Socialism Wealth Product Own

I was at first but I mean I thought at first that I wanted a little bit of that in there but the reasoning behind what they cut and what they kept really makes sense and it really played for me when I saw it yesterday, it all worked and was understood.

Brandon Routh

Me Thought Yesterday Mean First Saw

We are not born knowing how to hate; we are taught how to hate.

Bonnie Hammer

Hate Born Knowing How Taught

Punching your weight is one of boxing's most sensible rules. It's a handy one to abide by whether your battles lie in or out of a ring.

Brin-Jonathan Butler

Lie Rules Boxing Ring Battles Out