James Gleick Quotes
Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
Quotes to Explore
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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I think that the training of architects allows you to see what will happen ten years ahead of time, or twenty. It's not guessing, it's not intuitive, it's based on research - and we may be wrong.
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'Punk' doesn't mean Mohawks and safety pins. It's about not conforming.
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Developing new products is labour- intensive. So is producing the capital goods needed to make them. These jobs disappear when innovation stalls.
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I actually like football a great deal.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
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I have a lot of Republican friends.
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Economically, we are, to some significant degree, interdependent with Chinese well-being. That is a great asset.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.
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If you would attract good fortune, you must get rid of doubt. As long as that stands between you and your ambition, it will be a bar that will cut you off. You must have faith. No man can make a fortune while he is convinced that he can't.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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Being first lady is a full-time job. Betty Ford worked full time and should have received a salary. Michelle Obama works full time and should be paid.
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When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
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If you're not prepared, and you're not passionate, and you don't push yourself to a level of human exhaustion on every level, mentally and physically and creatively... I've seen directors who approach it casually, and they do somehow maintain better hours... but I could never be that guy. I am up and editing all night.
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I always wanted to do a Western.
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We trifle when we assign limits to our desires, since nature hath set none.
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Errantes silva in magna et sub luce malignainter harundineasque comas gravidumque papaveret tacitos sine labe lacus, sine murmure rivos,quorum per ripas nebuloso lumine marcentfleti, olim regum et puerorum nomina, flores.
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Heaven gives its favourites-early death.
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Every new medium transforms the nature of human thought. In the long run, history is the story of information becoming aware of itself.
