James Gleick Quotes
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
Quotes to Explore
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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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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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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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There are no extra pieces in the universe. Everyone is here because he or she has a place to fill, and every piece must fit itself into the big jigsaw puzzle.
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When I was a child, I thought I was going to be a paleontologist because I loved dinosaurs. I loved monster movies and sci-fi, and then 'Star Wars' came out, and I was completely out of my mind with that, with 'Close Encounters,' and then I thought maybe I was going to go into special effects makeup, which I thought was awesome.
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The reason why 'Black Lives Matter' is a chant is because a lot of people feel, myself included, that sometimes they don't matter.
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Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.
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But the good news is that out in the countryside, just about every place that's got a zip code has somebody or some group of people battling the economic and political exclusion that Wall Street and Washington are shoving down our throats.
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Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
