James Gleick Quotes
People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
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I've always just felt a little out of place. I still feel out of place in San Francisco. It's this place where everything is going great, and everyone feels super optimistic about the world. It's a little different about how I grew up.
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When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
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There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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The sci-fi movies I grew up with, the metaphor was very rich, and they used to really mean something: David Cronenberg's films, or John Carpenter's films, or the Phil Kaufman and Don Segel versions of 'Invasion Of The Body Snatchers,' or George Romero's early zombie films.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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It wasn't until after I was reelected in 1982 that I thought of myself as a long-term member of Congress.
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It would be a great adventure for Leicester to be in the Champions League.
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I like 'My So-Called Life' and the 'Riot Grrl Movement' and 'Freaks and Geeks.'
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Sometimes the storyline is as simple as, 'We're just going to be the best, and we're going for the championships.
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I come from a middle class family, and my parents weren't too supportive of my career choices.
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Some girls like to say one thing and mean another. And me being who I am, I'm very straightforward. Everything is very black and white for me. I don't really like playing mind games.
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I'm just having a wonderful time. It's an interesting thing that I'm very comfortable with this material and I don't know why. Maybe it's because I did MacBeth.
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I don't feel we need a declaration from the Palestinians that they recognize Israel as a Jewish state.
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I thought, how would I feel if my son gave one of those underprivileged kids chicken pox? For him it's not a terrible thing. We have good insurance and easy access to health care. It's a different situation for another family. I didn't want to make the decision for them.
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The more you relate to something or somebody speaks to you, it means more. I think that putting yourself out there like heart-on-sleeve, is really important.
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It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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A holy relationship is where the brokenness and wounds of the world are not escaped so much as as transformed by love, not hidden from but risen above.
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People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.
