James Gleick Quotes
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Inside every Sancho Panza there's a Don Quixote struggling to get out.
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He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog.
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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
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My wife is a painter, musician, and fiber artist. We married in 1993, and as she worked, I found that my reading about art was helping me understand what she was doing, just as seeing her work gave me a language with which to speak of art.
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A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the sentence of your life.
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I don't read a lot of magazines, but when I'm traveling, I'll pick up a copy of 'Vanity Fair' to read on the plane - it's like a full meal! The articles are so good, especially the crime stories. Browsing the Web is more like snacking - but I live on snacks.
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The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.
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For me, the highest level of sexual excitement is in a monogamous relationship.
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About 10,000 people a day go on first dates from Match... We're trying to celebrate that, bring those success stories to the forefront and make it even easier in our product to meet up at Starbucks.
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I love disappearing. That's what acting is. For me it's about putting on a persona, stepping into a pair of shoes. It's my face, but I'm using it as a tool for that spirit, that character.
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God wants you well. God wants you prosperous. God wants you a whole person.
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I never wore full-on eyeliner in high school, but I wanted to.
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Because of recent improvements in the accuracy of theoretical predictions based on large scale ab initio quantum mechanical calculations, meaningful comparisons between theoretical and experimental findings have become possible.
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I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.
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Honestly, for a big city, London is by far my favourite city on earth, and I'm not just saying that!
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I want to do theatre and film and direct my own things and develop.
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I said one day that Dole had a temper, and he got madder than hell. He has one. He has a mean one.
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I knew that until I was ready to tell the truth as I saw it, I was no better than a politician- but I didn't know whether I would ever be brave enough to break ranks and speak my mind.
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All of my favorite artists who inspired me were never afraid to be uncool and never afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves - no matter how much flak they took for it.
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There are works of fiction which seek to explain jihadi terrorists as the militant wing of Amnesty International. I don't buy that.
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One of the great things about Ben & Jerry's for me is that not only is it delicious, but I get it for free.
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Athletes as role models and heroes is a hoax, a sick hoax. The men and women who are fighting in Iraq, they are the true heroes.
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I don't know anyone in the hunting or sporting arena that goes out with an assault rifle.
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If instantaneity is what we want, television cannot compete with cyberspace.
