James Gleick Quotes
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.James Gleick
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I like to do the splits onstage.
Gavin DeGraw -
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.
M. F. Husain -
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.
Callie Khouri -
I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
Ursula Andress -
My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
Ian Somerhalder -
My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
Jack Black
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham -
No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Barry Commoner -
I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
R. L. Stine -
I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
Candice Swanepoel -
A company is not accountable just to its owners, but to its workers and its customers.
Ed Miliband
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Iggy Azalea -
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.
M. J. Rose -
Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
Karl Popper -
Insults are the business of the court.
Naguib Mahfouz -
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals.
Larry Bird
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I have my Grade 1 autobiography that says I'm going to the 2012 Olympic Games, and it has a picture of me on the podium. So, I've known my whole life. It's not something I just thought of. I've known I would be an Olympic athlete; didn't know what sport, but I drew myself in a judo gi.
Kelita Zupancic -
I just want people to know that whatever decisions are made on any issue, I'll make them according to what I believe is in the public interest and my own conscience.
Leo Varadkar -
I approached UNHCR because I believe in what the United Nations. I believe refugees are the most vulnerable people in the world. They are affected by everything, including landmines. They are vulnerable to everything.
Angelina Jolie -
We have learned the lines of good taste through history and our sense of guilt, be it post-colonial or post-Holocaust.
Patrick Chappatte -
We should all strive to be extraordinary, and that starts with a focus on our own capabilities instead of those of our opponents.
Don Yaeger -
Google is where we go for answers. People used to go elsewhere or, more likely, stagger along not knowing.
James Gleick