James Surowiecki Quotes
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When I am behind and I am looking ahead and there is that line in front of you, of that guy, of winning and losing, then I really hang it out there and take big risks to make the speed up, and then I'm pretty good at passing.
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I spend so much time in Los Angeles and normally stay at a corporate apartment when shooting 'Top Chef: Just Desserts,' but when I have the chance to stay somewhere more luxurious, I love The Montage in Beverly Hills.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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I had my first concert in front of 80,000 people at the International Soca Monarch Finals.
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Those were the ideals that drove us to nationalization of the health service.
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I'm very independent, creatively, always trying to push myself - and I think that comes from my mother.
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In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.
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I think an encore is perfectly acceptable, but I find it so weird when people do two or three.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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Imagine a libertarian president ending impediments to free markets.
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Metaphysics is a science.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back?
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If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in person.
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I don't know if most people know it or not, but I produce, like, 95% of my own stuff.
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On the roads, it is one of those 'might is right' situations. If I see cars coming, I duck out of the way.
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Japan is an important ally of ours. Japan and the United States of the Western industrialized capacity, 60 percent of the GNP, two countries. That's a statement in and of itself.
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In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.
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Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.
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A lot of actors know they want to be actors a little bit earlier on. I didn't even really start studying until I was about 22.
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I grow up in the States, in Miami, but I was born in Guatemala, and my father's Cuban, and in 'Body of Lies,' I played an Iraqi.
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I took up boxing out of sheer interest and to help my parents financially.
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I am a man who has made a great deal of money, and I haven't got a great deal. This is because I give it no value, and a certain Christian precept is something to be lived by, and so forth.
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Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.