James Surowiecki Quotes
Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
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I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
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This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in different people's minds. That I might mean one thing as I write, but a reader's experiences will take it somewhere else. That is like a conversation, I think. It is a true connecting up.
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Johnny once described our relationship by saying we were as close as two people could be without being married.
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Nobody deserves this much money - certainly not an actor.
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My kids like their eggs with catsup. I like mine with salsa.
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With age comes common sense and wisdom.
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Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.
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I'm a textbook definition of that perfectionist girl who has huge expectations of herself.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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Israel is the only country in the Middle East where Arabs can be elected to the parliament in a democratic election.
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It is a coincidence that Mathangi is the Goddess of Music and the spoken word, which can be rap.
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Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
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I'm definitely the worker. My brother is the jokester.
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'Selvandhan' is my first dubbed venture, which will release simultaneously with the original. It is a family drama. It has familiar Tamil faces, and I hope it does well.
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Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
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There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.
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Franklin was the best known of the Founding Fathers. His death could not go without some sort of official notice. The House of Representatives, after listening to a brief tribute by James Madison, voted to wear badges of mourning for two months and then got on with business.
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Standing outside the cultural hysteria the trend is fairly clear. It is a trend toward temporal compression and the emergence of ambiguity.
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'Con Air' was kind of a turning point for me, in my mind. I never shot anybody in that movie – I never did anything bad – because there were so many bad guys in that movie. I said, 'The hell with this, I'm just gonna be a lovable guy.' I'm like Steve McQueen in 'The Great Escape.'
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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
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I'm kind of shy, to be honest. If I go to the pool or something, I keep my shirt on unless I'm getting in the water.
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I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.
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Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
