James Gleick Quotes
In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.James Gleick
Quotes to Explore
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One of the things jazz has always excelled at is translating the reality of the times through its musical prism.
Pat Metheny -
It should simply be an empirical matter whether the climate is changing or not and whether we're responsible. But the various sides of the debate have now become so tribal that it's no longer a matter of changing our views as more information comes in.
Ian Mcewan -
The great sadness of my life is that I never achieved the hour newscast, which would not have been twice as good as the half-hour newscast, but many times as good.
Walter Cronkite -
I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic -
Capitalism has forced everyone to overoptimize in order to compete.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
Laura Dern
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I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.
Yael Stone -
If you don't learn constantly, you don't grow, and you will wither. Too many people wither on the vine. Sure, it gets a little harder as you get older, but new experiences and new challenges keep it fresh.
Iris Apfel -
I don't believe there should be any restrictions when it comes to firearms. None.
Gary Johnson -
We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.
Omar N. Bradley -
In Romania, we have pledged to create a modern public service: well-educated, appropriately rewarded and above all, de-politicized.
Victor Ponta -
Every girl likes to just rock out when they put music on in their room - I learned that personally when fans would tell us how much they loved to make up their own dances to Cheetah Girls songs.
Sabrina Bryan
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I really like 'The Three Kings' DVD. I love that movie and all the extra footage and documentaries.
A. J. Cook -
The greatest of the greats wouldn't be the greatest of the greats if they didn't try stuff, you know what I mean?
Zendaya -
We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
Nate Ruess Fun. -
Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.
Sallust -
A house sold by A to B does not wander from one place to another, although it circulates as a commodity.
Karl Marx -
He wanted to be who he was, not the person he would become if he lost the one trait that distinguished him from everybody else, no matter how perverse that decision seemed to others.
Iain Banks
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The reality is that we will be reading Miranda rights to the corpse of Osama bin Laden. He will never appear in an American courtroom. That's the reality. He will be killed by us, or he will be killed by his own people so he's not captured by us. We know that.
Eric Holder -
My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.
Brian May Queen -
I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
Will Patton -
When we face uncertainty, we encourage everyone to press forward and believe in the values of the product.
Evan Spiegel -
In the 1920s, a generation before the coming of solid-state electronics, one could look at the circuits and see how the electron stream flowed. Radios had valves, as though electricity were a fluid to be diverted by plumbing. With the click of the knob came a significant hiss and hum, just at the edge of audibility.
James Gleick