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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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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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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Hold infinity in the palm of your hand.
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When I'm writing a song for another artist, I purposefully make it not for me; otherwise, I get too attached.
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You need these experiences. Just know that sometimes, the director has a specific look in mind.
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The U.S. government has been preoccupied with health care 'reform,' but this refers to improving access and insurance coverage and has little or nothing to do with innovation.
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.
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The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
