James Surowiecki Quotes
Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
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I waited for my first kiss.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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Wal-mart... do they like make walls there?
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I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I never see things I make in the same way that the audience does. You can never do that.
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Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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When we think of Gemini.com, it will be like a Nasdaq for bitcoin.
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Most people looking for dinosaurs are looking for beautiful skeletons.
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If terrorism is to be defeated, the world of Islam must take on board the secularist-humanist principles on which the modern is based, and without which Muslim countries' freedom will remain a distant dream.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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Every man who attacks my belief, diminishes in some degree my confidence in it, and therefore makes me uneasy; and I am angry with him who makes me uneasy.
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First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing, but except on the sunniest days, you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
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Man is apt to be more moved by the art of his own period, not because it is more perfect, but because it is organically related to him.
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Integrated meditation practice is like a healthy diet
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Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.
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In previous armies, soldiers used their time to clean their weapons and stock up on ammunition. Our weapons are words, and we may need our arsenal at any moment.
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Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.
