James Surowiecki Quotes
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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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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Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
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To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?
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Sometimes a person thinks he's attached to one thing and he's really attached to something else.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
