James Surowiecki Quotes
Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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I remember when I was growing up. My great wish was to understand who I was and how I fit in the world.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
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The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.
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I lost 'The X Factor,' and I lost 'Deal or No Deal' twice. I'm good at losing game shows.
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I watch a lot of home stuff; I like seeing things go from one thing to another and get fixed up.
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Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I don't think about fights that didn't happen.
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The wave of the Islamic revolution will soon reach the entire world.
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There's nothing I like more than picking fresh vegetables then putting them in the dinner you make that night.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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I take my work seriously.
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There's a difference between a failure and a fiasco... a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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You can crush any woman by suggesting that she's fat, not even saying the word 'fat' but just suggesting she's fat.
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We need to defend absolutely the freedom of speech.
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Ron's ears turned bright red and he become engrossed in a tuft of grass at his feet, which he prodded with his toe 'he must've known I'd run out on you'. 'No', Harry corrected him, 'He must've known you'd always want to come back
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I have an organic garden and love being able to say, 'I'm going to see what I can pick to throw in my salad.'
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We need more women solving different problems, starting companies, and creating jobs to drive our economy and society forward.
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John McEnroe is the most honest and real person I have ever interviewed.
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Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
