James Surowiecki Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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I don't pay attention to the media. You guys can say whatever you want. At the end of the day, at the end of the season, if we're doing well, you guys are going to be there.
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Youth theatre isn't just about a precocious child that wants to sing and dance in front of people. It's for everyone; it's about a community, it's about being supported by your peer group. You learn skills - not just acting but all the other sides - working in the TV, film, and theatre industry.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
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The whole borrowing clothes thing is very unnatural for me. I don't feel comfortable with that. If you like something, I'd just give it to you rather than sharing it.
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From the catbird seat, I've found poetry to be the necessary utterance it has always been in America.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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How hard can it be to walk up and down in a straight line? You just need to put one step in front of another; most people do it all the time. What's the worst that can happen? You fall over. Sometimes that happens to non-models, too; it wouldn't be the end of the world.
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Was Jesus the son of God? Yes. But so are you. You just haven't realized it yet.
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My whole thing is feel free to hate me – I so don't care if you hate me, but meet me, and listen to my record, and know me before you hate me.
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And now comes Pete Martell in Twin Peaks and he's just a nice guy.
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If I got $300 million from the California Lottery, the first thing I would do is buy the rights to 'Firefly', make it on my own, and distribute it on the Internet.
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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God's curriculum.
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Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
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Being nice doesn’t make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.
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I think people love to attach themselves to the idea of an overnight success. That may be true about me.
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The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.
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Sometimes even a smart crowd will make a mistake.
