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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I search for items that have history, like vintage finds - I love fur kitten-heel house slippers from the 1950s - and pieces from fashion houses that have been around for a long time, like Chanel and Dior.
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Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
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When I discovered acting, I decided that's what I wanted to do above everything else. It was the first time I was passionate about anything.
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I take mentoring very seriously and I am on the board of an organization called Girls Write Now, where we match teen girls and writing mentors because it changes their lives.
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This notion that I was somehow special and deserving of a more involved education was wrong.I was smart at taking tests, but I knew how smart some of my friends were; they were just smart in different ways.
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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.
