James Gleick Quotes
Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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Whatever you got you have to accentuate. I ran my female card up and down the ladder my whole career, because I was in a man's world. It was worked by women but owned by men. I was the only female owner in my field at that time.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Having been governor of New Mexico, I know that legislation gets passed to benefit those who have money and influence. Then they buy more money and influence. That's one reason why, as governor, I vetoed more than 750 bills and thousands of line items. I did it to keep crony capitalism away from government.
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I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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When we see that our problem is so complicated and so all-encompassing in its intent and content, then we realize that it is no longer a Negro problem, confined only to the American Negro; that it is no longer an American problem, confined only to America, but it is a problem for humanity.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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Over a three year period, I gave away half of what I had. To be honest, my hands shook as I signed it away. I knew I was taking myself out of the race to be the richest man in the world.
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Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
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I am really honoured, but if the prize had gone to Mahatma Gandhi before me, I would have been more honoured.
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I feel the emotion that life conjures up and the songs I write get me closer to my feelings and realising who I am. It's a natural process.
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I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
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I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
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It was not a fashionable place, but even among the pleasant people there, the girls made few friends, preferring to live for one another.
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Remember: You are the common denominator in all your relationship problems. Wherever you go, your pesky repeated issues go - until you shed a blazing light of insight upon them.
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I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64 K to 640 K felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem.
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Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.
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You have to be very careful about what you say. More importantly, you have to be very careful about what you do. You never know how or when you influence people – especially children.
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Nanosecond precision matters for worldwide communications systems. It matters for navigation by Global Positioning System satellite signals: an error of a billionth of a second means an error of just about a foot, the distance light travels in that time.
