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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Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes.'
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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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I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either.
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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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I did stand-up comedy for seventeen years. I need to explore other things.
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I am really, I think, truly an easygoing, positive, fun person.
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There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?
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It's so easy to look forward when you're travelling; you spend your life looking forward, thinking, 'What's next? When do I get time to work on my music again? Or when do I get time to get my 'normal' life back?'
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There is an unparalleled beauty inside. When you are in that place, you realize that you are never alone. When the whole world gives up on you, you can turn inside. When you are ready to give up on the whole world, you can turn inside. When you want to be with the whole world, you can still go inside and experience this beauty. Nothing ever changes in there.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
