James Surowiecki Quotes
You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I like to practise. With every new piece, you make mistakes and you learn. So it's important to get on and have another go.
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For me, it's always been very essential to work on projects that one can work on almost for their entire life.
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I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.
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I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Life started getting good when I started making money.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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In 1956, I received an invitation to a dedication of an observatory in the Soviet Union, in Soviet Armenia, as a guest of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.
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I have a lot of friends who do what I do. Either they're actresses or singers or things like that.
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For some people, miracles serve as evidence of God's existence.
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What's more important to 'SNL': comedy or buzz? To the writers, players and guest hosts, it's probably the former; to Lorne Michaels and the suits at NBC, it's ultimately probably the latter.
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My parents weren't extremely successful financially, but they were happy people. They gave me confidence.
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The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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Just being famous feels cheap to me.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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It's wrong to rob banks, yeah, but is it right for banks to loan people money, knowing full well they can't pay it back?
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I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.
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The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
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You might say that economic history is the history of people learning to manage risk.
