James Surowiecki Quotes
In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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I mean, I am fully aware of my influence and my responsibility to society in general representing the gay community. But in the same time, I don't represent the entire gay community because it's a vast, vast community, as one can imagine.
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I bought a company in the mid-'90s called Dexter Shoe and paid $400 million for it. And it went to zero. And I gave about $400 million worth of Berkshire stock, which is probably now worth $400 billion. But I've made lots of dumb decisions. That's part of the game.
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The older I get the more of my mother I see in myself.
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'Dancing with the Stars' is awesome.
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I love snacks, but I'm kind of growing out of them. I'm getting into fruit and Clif Bars.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I was very quiet at college and had a certain group of friends.
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports of explorers and travellers did the work of fiction, and Cooper's Prairie had few followers.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
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Even without an economic downturn, women sometimes want to keep their shopping habits to themselves.
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The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
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Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.
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Fascism is very much a mob movement.
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I think it's definitely beneficial for these characters to have good acting voices behind them and it affects the characters in a way that people can feel like they're part of the game and that they know these characters.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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Yoga is your mind control capacity.
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I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.
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It is because the people are citizens that they are with safety armed.
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I believe in sex on a first date. Otherwise, how do you know if a second date is worth the effort?
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When you put the musical in front of an audience, you get to see how the audience reacts.
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In the auto industry, there's one thing you can always count on: if a new environmental or safety rule is proposed, executives will prophesy disaster.
