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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Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
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I come from an African Caribbean background. I've been influenced by a reggae church music style, contemporary gospel, and rock all fused together.
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It's funny: Your relationship changes with a song over time. After a year or so, you're a different person, so your songs, you don't connect with them like you did.
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When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.
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You know what’s the real fight, the real money fight. It’s me
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Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller.
