James Surowiecki Quotes
The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.
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It's a weird thing to say you want people to be sick of your song, but I guess that's what happens if your song goes really well.
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I've dealt with a lot in my life.
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Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.
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Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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The SAS is the most elite of the special forces in the world. They are not people who go out and advertise; they keep it inside. They don't want anybody to know about them.
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When you cease to dream you cease to live.
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It's good for kids to look up to sporting role models.
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I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
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The English are polite by telling lies. The Americans are polite by telling the truth.
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I was good at math and science, and I got lots of degrees in lots of things, but in a parallel universe, I probably became a chef.
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What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.
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I grew up in the Fifties and Sixties and remember how unpleasant all kinds of food could be then.
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If you don't like airline food, you'll probably have the same impression of space station food. I would not fly to space for the food.
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I'm doing my best to not be too rude about it, but oh my God that Czech food...
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The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me.
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The value of a currency is, ultimately, what someone will give you for it - whether in food, fuel, assets, or labor. And that's always and everywhere a subjective decision.
