James Surowiecki Quotes
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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It's actually harder to write a fun song.
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I want to have an impact on my son.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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My parents are overweight, and I think the biggest problem we have in America is a lack of education. The place to start is with parents and teaching them to cook healthier.
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I went to boarding school, and what that teaches you is to cope emotionally at a young age and to suppress a lot of emotion. Being in the army is, in a way, similar.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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There was no difference between my characters and the life my readers were going to have to face.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Tom DeLay fears independent thinkers and fighters. I am both.
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I grew up like a lot of country boys and girls do - amongst the pine trees, dirt roads, farms, mules and people who were real.
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Mozart is expressing something that is more than human.
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I'm pretty self-critical about everything I've ever done: stand-up, 'SNL.'
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I rarely read children's books.
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Companies, like people, don't much like to change.
