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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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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Health care is the No. 1 concern of small businesses and the status quo is untenable.
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Slaves, whose legal status was comparable to that of livestock, were expected to provide a farm owner with marketable children.
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My advice to any teenager would be don't try too hard - just get on with it. That's what I did. Have fun; enjoy life.
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The first discipline modernity’s originators imposed upon themselves was that of self-restraint, learning to live with vulgarity. Their high expectations for effectiveness were made possible by low expectations of what was to be.
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Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.
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The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.
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Capitalism, after all, is no fun when real failure becomes a possibility.
