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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Stars arrive on their own timetable.
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The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.
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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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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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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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Tough times call for tough choices and pinching every penny.
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Sex in the nineties is boring. The problem is that it has gone from an active act to a spectator sport. We watch people make love on television and in films. We call 900 numbers to hear what someone would do to us if they weren't sitting in a boiler room of other dirty talkers reading from a prepared script.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Our dreams are made of real things, like a shoebox full of photographs.
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We said, as we were developing 'Iron Man 1,' and working on these films, that our characters need to be as interesting out of their costumes as they are inside their costumes, fighting and flying around.
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The ban on sports betting does exactly what Prohibition did. It makes criminals rich.
