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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Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language.
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The toughest thing to do in politics is to do the right thing when your supporters think the right thing is something else.
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A superb tenor voice, like a silver trumpet muffled in silk.
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It's really an amazing feeling because you're flying in a car that's on stage and to be this age also, and in the theater and then with a huge audience of 1,800 people backing you up and cheering you on. It's a really amazing feeling.
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I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.
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Most corporate name changes are the result of mergers and acquisitions. But these tend to be unimaginative.
