James Gleick Quotes
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
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I like to do the splits onstage.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
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No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
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I really bonded with my mom, growing up, through our love of horror movies!
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After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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I feel like 'Work' was a really good song for people to get to know me, as it's obviously biographical. With 'Bounce,' I wanted to make sure people know there's a fun side to me as well as the somber and serious one.
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I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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As soon as I am able to talk about it I will.
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It's getting better and better. You know, guys are feeling more comfortable and they are not afraid to speak up and be a leader. I mean, our team, we have 25 players, we have about 25 leaders, too. So whatever someone says, people listen.
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I have no ghost writers. I personally write every message and every piece of published mail.
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This world is magnificent for strangers and pilgrims, but miserable for residents.
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I think it is very good for the country, for the world, and especially for the Democrats that Harry Reid is retiring.
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Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
