James Gleick Quotes
One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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People are making judgements about Russian people based on me. This is why I never allow myself any aggression towards my opponent.
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Ohio has long been an embarrassment to charter-school supporters nationwide, with its trail of scandal and graft and abysmal student performance.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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Artists want to be congratulated because they should be.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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The simple opposition between the people and big business has disappeared because the people themselves have become so deeply involved in big business.
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In the year 3000, everything will be instant.
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I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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Yashpal, writing in the nineteen-fifties, sought to indict this culture of men, Hindus and Muslims alike, who value their freedom and power over the rights and lives of women.
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I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
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The Who on record were dynamic. Roger Daltrey's delivery allowed vulnerability without weakness; doubt and confusion, but no plea for sympathy.
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We are shallow because our media are so horribly shallow. Every morning, I peruse the papers, and there is so little to read in them. It is the same with radio - all that noise, that artifice.
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Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
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I felt, this is what I want to be in my life. I want to be an actress.
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There are two languages: one as things seem to us and the other of knowledge.
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You know, this is not about endorsements in the primary. We have to get through a primary first.
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People want me to run for president all the time … I don’t like it. Can you imagine how controversial I’d be? You think about Bill Clinton and the women. How about me with the women? Can you imagine?
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One measure of twentieth-century time is the supersonic three and three-quarter hours it takes the Concorde to fly from New York to Paris, gate to gate. Other measures come with the waits on the expressways and the runways.
