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.James Gleick
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
Quentin Tarantino -
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.
Barbara Corcoran -
Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.
Gary Johnson -
I like pencil skirts because they hug me in all the right places.
Mandy Moore -
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.
T. S. Eliot
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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.
Malcolm X -
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.
Daniel Bryan -
A dinosaur out of context is like a character without a story. Worse than that, the character suffers from amnesia.
Jack Horner -
When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
Daniel Clowes -
My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
Garth Brooks -
Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
Lady Gregory
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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.
Ted Turner -
Someone tried to save my soul in a gas station.
Orlando Bloom -
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.
Taylor Swift -
I love musicals; I love the ballet, opera, the circus. It's all performance to me.
Ian Mckellen -
I get attached to things: I wear the same jeans for a year.
Oscar Isaac -
All cultures through all time have constantly been engaged in a dance with new possibilities for life. Change is the one constant in human history.
Wade Davis
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
Warren Buffett -
Just because you have a piece of trash and you throw it away and it gets hauled away, it doesn't mean that it's not affecting someone else.
Majora Carter -
In my work at 'Entertainment Weekly,' I had written reviews and news stories about YA books and film franchises and was always moved by how smart and voracious and loyal the readers were. Everything we did got lots of attention and reaction.
Jeff Giles -
At no time in history have we succeeded in making, in a timely fashion, a specific vaccine for more than 260 million people.
Laurie Garrett -
The goal of maximizing the welfare of all may be better achieved by an ethic that accepts our inclinations and harnesses them so that, taken as a whole, the system works to everyone's advantage.
Peter Singer -
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.
James Gleick