James Surowiecki Quotes
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I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
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I think it's nice to do work that is vaguely compromising to your health because it means you really care about it.
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The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
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I grew up playing golf, and if I were ever good enough to play professionally, I would get to travel the world while playing a sport I love.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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During my captivity, I felt abandoned by everyone apart from my family and supporters, because there was no part of the political spectrum that would want me released.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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I have had success throughout the years. Some of the hard rock bands today don't have the history that I have.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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There is an inevitable divergence between the world as it is and the world as men perceive it.
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Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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'Radioactive' is the fall out of my life's inspirations, a testament to my ability to survive it all and to tell the story.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I feel some need to represent where I'm from. But ultimately, I think my only real responsibility is to - as much as possible - interrogate my own truths. This is to say not merely writing what I think is true, but using the writing to turn that alleged truth over and over, to stress-test it, in the aim of producing something readable.
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I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
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I want to be able to say that a rap career could be ten albums.
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At Babbo, each dish grew out of a conversation, trying to put something forth that was new and different. It was a combination of culinary adventurism and the dining-room experience with respect for the classic but with an eye toward innovation. And it was about eating locally, whether produce or fish or meat.
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I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
