James Surowiecki Quotes
The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
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Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out... Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.
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I am supposed to set an example to young players.
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I was born and brought up in the countryside. I used to live in a sort of converted stables on the grounds of a castle, and I spent a lot of my childhood running around with a pretend sword pretending to be Robert the Bruce.
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I have often said one of the reasons more blacks don't support Republicans is because they don't trust the GOP establishment.
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For almost a century since 1918, the centralised nation-state has been the world's default political form. Its various experiments in industrialisation, urbanisation, mass literacy and consumerism have brought more people into public life.
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As artists, we're always going to like the songs we just now made over the songs we made a year ago.
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I haven't listened to much music lately; I've been out of it.
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If my client calls me and says, 'I'm going to a friend's premiere,' I'll say, 'Come over and let's do something cute.' And I won't bill them for that.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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I think the tone of the show has certainly changed over the years, because it's really, really hard to do something different when you have a show going on as long as this has.
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When someone has the desire to go to school and has the ability but can't get into our schools, that's wrong. Education drives the economy and the quality of life.
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I'm certainly relishing the idea of living a century. Can you imagine that? What an achievement.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
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Sometimes I thank God... for cheeseburgers.
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Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
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So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.
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I would love to be able to read minds. How cool would it be to get inside peoples' heads and figure out what they're thinking? I guess that's a good and a bad thing.
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Networking doesn't have to be all about talking shop over appetizers and bad chardonnay - do it in a way that works for you.
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I am re-reading Henry James as a change from history. I began with Daisy Miller, and I've just finished Washington Square. What a brilliant, painful book.
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The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
