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.James Surowiecki
Quotes to Explore
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
Fabiola Gianotti -
You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
Daniel Craig -
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.
Carlene Carter -
The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
Samuel Johnson -
I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
Queen Victoria -
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.
Rakul Preet Singh
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A so-called happy marriage corresponds to love as a correct poem to an improvised song.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
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.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
The natural enmity between leaver and left is like the absolute, immediate and always shifting hostility between driver and pedestrian.
Edmund White -
Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
D. W. Griffith -
If you do something, expect consequences.
Larry King -
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.
E. Stanley Jones
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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.
Bebe Neuwirth -
You can be powerful without being loud and aggressive.
Ed Skrein -
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.
Valerie Plame -
I do not want to respond to leaks that concern things that have to do with state secrets of the first degree.
Yitzhak Shamir -
When I'm putting some communication out on Twitter or Facebook or Instagram, I think that it's helping me, my brain, you know, because it's always somehow stimulated by people who are sending things to me. And it works both ways. It's great. My brain is very happy about it.
Yoko Ono -
I'll dance to anything: Bob Marley or rap.
Francesca Annis
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I appreciate people who are authentic. Someone who just wants to be cool, I can tell when their intentions aren't right.
Diplo -
I first came to Brazil in the Sixties. Then I started coming back every year since touring most of the country. I grew to love it, the people, the music. I thought this is where I belong. I've been living in Brazil for the past 23 years. I call it my stress-free country.
Dionne Warwick -
Oh, my gosh! Can you imagine learning boxing from Sylvester Stallone's character? I would die!
Pom Klementieff -
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.
James Surowiecki