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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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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I'm a little obsessed with lip balm. When I go to a new place, I'll find the locally made natural lip balms and buy them as my little memento.
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The only thing that can protect me from someone coming from behind are the rules.
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Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed.
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It is no coincidence that so many religious beliefs date back to times when no science could possibly have accounted satisfactorily for many of the natural phenomena inspiring scripture and myths.
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Another show I really enjoyed working on was 'Raising The Bar.' I did four or five episodes of that show.
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The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species.
