James Gleick Quotes
The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
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There is nothing that says unions have a God-given right to be there. We have to work at it and make ourselves relevant to every section of the workforce.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
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Chess was natural for me; I was extremely successful.
Garry Kasparov -
I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself.
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Sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff without knowing where you will land.
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The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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We play tag and kickball almost every day. It's one of the ways that I've figured out how to spend some fun quality time with my kids while getting exercise.
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Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living.
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Basketball's eras are defined by teams - Celtics, Lakers, Bulls - and baseball's epochs are defined by players - Ruth, Robinson, Mantle - but with football, it's the sideline strategists, the nutty professors and top coated Lears.
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I want to do more documentaries and travel to places I haven't been. That is where I think I can be fulfilled.
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You can't ignore the system and the power you acquire as an actor if you're in films that are successful.
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It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.
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The history of man is a compendium of such evil. We are an evolutionary product, descendants of predators. A few synthetic foods aside, every morsel eaten by man is taken from another living thing. We are intended for murder; we kill to exist!
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I define sustainable history as a durable progressive trajectory in which the quality of life on this planet or other planets is premised on the guarantee of human dignity for all at all times and under all circumstances.
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I myself have proved it to be of no small use, when in bed in the dark, to recall in fancy the external details of forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by subtle speculation; and this is certainly an admirable exercise, and useful for impressing things on the memory.
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A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn't let them get her down.
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It is still color, it is not yet light.
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I've grown so much since 1996. I think that was the turning point of when I started to go to church every Sunday and not just because you're supposed to. But because you enjoy going and listening to the Word and being excited about it.
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Don't go telling yourself you're in love with the man he could be; you gotta love the man standing in front of you right now. Simply put, love the person not the potential! Otherwise, he will always be disappointing to you. And whose fault is that?
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The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
