James Surowiecki Quotes
All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
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I've had laser eye surgery and I don't wear glasses any more, so people just go, 'You're not Damien Hirst.' I don't get recognized on the street.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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People desire power. I don't know why they want it so. It seems to me it implies a hugely superior intellect which separates them from most of the populace.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
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The Haitian people are gentle and lovable except for their enormous and unconscious cruelty.
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I've never had to explain 'Prometheus' to people, ever. Most people get it.
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Nothing's better than coming away from a film when people don't even recognize you, because you've undergone a total transformation.
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Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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If people like you, they'll listen to you, but if they trust you, they'll do business with you.
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When you are growing up, everyone will help you. When you reach the top, everyone will start pulling you down. The same people who help you will be the same people who try to pull you down.
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The people in the villages had turned in on themselves. You can understand it. When you have a bad day on the field, what do you do? Talk to your teammates.
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Some people like just sitting down and being taken for a ride. That's a beautiful thing that fiction can do. But it's not the only thing. In television and film, people are ready to accept any kind of jump cut, but the slightest disturbance on the page ruffles their feathers.
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You know, it's a really adult thing, for some people, to choose to not be with the one that you love.
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I think, with 'Pride,' I always knew that was something amazing because of the people who were in it and the story and the way it was written and who was directing. Anyone in that cast knew it was special.
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There's that stigma about New Yorkers, how they're so mean, but in my experience it was quite the opposite. People were very genuine and very nice, even on the subway.
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We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.
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Jefferson said the states are the laboratories of democracy. But the problem is, nobody reads the lab reports. We've got every state trying to reinvent everything. I was struck even more so after this trip how little exchange there is among states that are coping with exactly the same issues.
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You just have to be yourself and go full with confidence and be courageous.
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But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.
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It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.
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I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps.
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All things being equal, letting people make decisions for themselves will produce smarter outcomes, collectively, than relying on government planners.
