Appropriator Quotes

#1. Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator.

Lawrence Lessig

#2. Someone said, "Backsliding is not a blowout. It's a slow leak.

Don Sisk

#3. [I]t is the maxim of the saints that when a matter has been decided in the presence of God after many prayers and the seeking of advice, we must reject and consider as a temptation whatever is suggested to the contrary.

Vincent De Paul

#4. There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won't forget them.

Joyce Meyer

#5. The reason husbands and wives do not understand each other is because they belong to different sexes.

Dorothy Dix

#6. Wherever you go, I'll go. As long as I'm alive, this will never fucking change.

Krista Ritchie

#7. Technology is neutral: It convicts and finds innocents. We must make it a regularized part of the system, giving defendants access to DNA testing and evidence whenever it might be relevant.

Eliot Spitzer

#8. The worst of the action films are the ones where everything is one shout from beginning to finish. And there's no differentiation between beats, like small or big, or quiet or expansive. It's all just one loud shout.

Shane Black

#9. My wife read Narc as well and was really into it.

Ray Liotta

#10. When I was younger, I didn't understand how a mother could put her son on a plane and just say, you know, 'Here you go, I'll see you later.' And she never followed, she never came.

Jose Antonio Vargas

#11. I no longer believe that just about everything is funny, if viewed from the proper angle.

Tom Perrotta

#12. She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.

David Foster Wallace

#13. You have to have competent people evaluating the athlete, not the housewives!

Bela Karolyi