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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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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I enjoy the hunt much more than the 'good life' after the victory.
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I, marry? Oh, I could never bring myself to do it. I would have been in mortal misery all my life for fear my wife might say, 'That's a pretty little thing,' after I had finished a picture.
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
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When you're young and queer and closeted, you can end up in this place where you regard your straight peers as the enemy.
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With 'Location' and all the other songs around it, my music turned into therapy for others. And that's something I really love and am blown away by.
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I've been able to make some wonderful films, but sometimes you make films with great passion - great belief - and these films slightly don't work at the box office, and they become your favorite films.
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Republicans like to indict Democrats as anti-corporate zealots.
