James Surowiecki Quotes
When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I couldn't live on the singing at first, so I worked as a cleaner, in a launderette, in a garage, face painting and doing the windows of shops at Christmas, 'cause I had been to art college.
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Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.
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The qubit acts as a bridge between the microscopic and the macroscopic worlds.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I didn't go into the theater to be a producer, I went into the theater to be a director.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Without question Gibson guitars are the finest, most revered guitars on the planet.
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I'm not stuck in Strikeforce. I'm happy to be with them. It's where I started, and they've been great to me.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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I give infinite thanks to God, who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things.
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I don't think Steve Jobs had much desire to share his fortune.
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The more I come to know about the outside world's perception of China, the more I feel there are all sorts of misunderstandings, and to a certain extent, people do not get the full picture from the media. A lot of foreigners have few opportunities to visit China, and a lot of Chinese people do not have the chance to go to Europe or to the West.
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I remember watching Gilda Radner when I was a kid and everyone thought she was so funny and no one ever said that she was a funny woman, she was just funny.
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Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving you're putting on a show!
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Chelsea are a big club - we have to win titles and to qualify for the Champions League. There's a lot to do, but we'll try to do it all.
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When the English language gets in my way, I walk over it.
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I consider not what Parmenion should receive, but what Alexander should give.
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I'm a vagabond. I live out of one suitcase. I feel very comfortable in black. I feel very uncomfortable in anything else than black.
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What Christopher Nolan and I have done with 'Superman' is try to bring the same naturalistic approach that we adopted for the 'Batman' trilogy. We always had a naturalistic approach; we want our stories to be rooted in reality, like they could happen in the same world we live in.
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When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
