James Surowiecki Quotes
Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I was thinking about it: so many of my stories are about my family life, not about being related to a lot of famous people. That's my grandma, that's my mama, my daddy, my aunt, my uncle, my stepdaddy. I'd probably tell them even if they weren't well known.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
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The one thing about going from the audience to the stage in just three years is that you know how it feels to be down there.
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The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
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Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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If you do something, expect consequences.
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Our intentions may be very good, but, because the intelligence is limited, the action may turn out to be a mistake - a mistake, but not necessarily a sin, for sin comes out of a wrong intention.
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I don't see my dancing or acting as two separate things. I don't define them separately, so I can't say one has helped the other, It's all the same thing. More than anything I love being on stage and performing.
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You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
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Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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Europe is one of the best travel destinations in the world.
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Nobody believed the 'Food Network' could last. Even I was short sighted and thought to myself, 24 hours of food on TV? They'll run out of things to talk about in four days! But that wasn't true. 'Food Network' continues to get better and evolve.
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Who learns most from a good book is the author.
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You can't help but just be aware that things might not always be as good as they are, because people's feelings about others can turn on a dime.
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I grew up in a little town with about 6,000 or 7,000 people. I always knew from 11 or 12 years old that I wanted to be a writer, and I always wanted to write about growing up in a place like that that's small and you don't fit into.
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Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.
