James Gleick Quotes
Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.James Gleick
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I would love to be a singer if I had the talent for it. I'd love to be a graphic designer if I had the talent for it. Those are things I've always just admired - the work of other artists.
Dan Bucatinsky -
We are presented with a unique situation in the black community in that we have embraced the beauty of hip hop, the real rawness of it, the real fun of it, but we also have to address the damage it has done. We have to look at what it's done to our black girls, especially when it comes to domestic violence.
Tamron Hall -
It's a shame in a way that people come and go with one album.
Marc Almond Soft Cell -
My folks were drunks, and I had a rough childhood - really rough - in fact, rougher than I thought about.
Gary Paulsen -
I went online with winelibrary.com in July of 1997; that was my first professional online play.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
When I decided that I might want to do acting for a living - I don't know where it really came from, since there was no school play or any of that - my mom gave me her blessing. I had to get a scholarship - that was the only way I could have gone to drama school.
Gary Oldman
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The bird is powered by its own life and by its motivation.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam -
Heard in full sound, the Gospels tell about the establishment of a theocracy, and portray what theocracy looks like with Jesus as king.
N. T. Wright -
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller -
I think I've been a great citizen.
O. J. Simpson -
I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
Sam Shepard -
I've had many incidents in my life of racism. I've been thrown on the ground. I've been frisked. I've been arrested so many times I couldn't tell you. I have no need to talk about it.
Forest Whitaker
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When my senior prom was happening, I was in Malta filming 'Troy.'
Garrett Hedlund -
At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.
Ira Glass -
I hope for all of us that the future brings us towards evolving our consciousness. To delving deeper into our true power. To exploring more the key to sustaining our planet and our art for the better of all living things.
Rain Phoenix -
BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.
Ueli Gegenschatz -
The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody.
Oliver North -
I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.
Yahya Jammeh
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I'm from the South - I love to eat, and that's why I have to exercise.
Kelly Rowland Destiny's Child -
Exercise till the mind feels delight in reposing from the fatigue.
Socrates -
I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it - not necessarily European-style socialism. It'll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.
Christina Hoff Sommers -
In the world of ADD, there are only two times: there is now, and then there is not now.
Edward Hallowell -
I always work on New Year's Eve, no matter what.
Debbie Harry Blondie -
Encyclopedias are finished. All encyclopedias combined, including the redoubtable Britannica, have already been surpassed by the exercise in groupthink known as Wikipedia.
James Gleick