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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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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Pacific Islands are among those that contribute least to global warming, yet suffer most.
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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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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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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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This country owes them all a debt of gratitude. The down payment on that debt is making sure that we live up to Lincoln's charge: to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan.
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It is a difficult matter for man to realize the extreme importance of social discriminations which seem outwardly insignificant but which produce in woman moral and intellectual effects so profound that they appear to spring from her original nature.
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America brought us the baseball cap; it's one of my favorite hats.
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Western civilization is a loaded gun pointed at the head of this planet.
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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.
