James Surowiecki Quotes
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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Years ago, I noticed one thing about economics, and that is that economists didn't get anything right.
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Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.
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A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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If you're driving, and a cop is behind you, you automatically think they're going to pull you over, but cops have so much more going on than to think about pulling you over. The last thing a real cop wants to do is write a ticket. That's the truth.
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I've removed legs from dogs on the bed of my truck on the farm.
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There are other writers who try for subtle and minimalists effects, but I don't travel in that tribe.
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I want to continue to remain present and grateful each day that I get to be doing what I love. Making and performing music I believe in.
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Being an actor does make you aware of your age.
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What I learned from my years in Silicon Valley is that design can have a primary role in how a business is shaped, how a company can be design-driven. In my experience of large industry in Europe, that knowledge has been lost.
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Whatever you do needs to be sustainable over time, and taking the money in the short term and taking it in a bubble - like buying an Internet stock in 2000 - may not be sustainable.
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The thing that 'Annie' means to me is that it is good to always be strong, and if you have a goal, go for it, and if there is something in your way, just go around and find your path again, and go for your goal.
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As America's nuclear strategic monopoly faded, the United States sought to create advantages elsewhere, notably in the peaceful cooperation between the United States and communist China under Deng Xiaoping.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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My diet is always extremely important to me. I've taken a new approach to eating in terms of my blood type. I really don't eat much chicken, sugar, salts, or beef. Just eating clean and feeling so much better.
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Needless, heedless, wanton and deliberate injury of the sort inflicted by Life's picture story is not an essential instrument of responsible journalism.
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Fashion is about dressing according to what's fashionable. Style is more about being yourself.
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I wanted to make sure that if somebody special did come along, I was the kind of man that a woman like her would deserve.
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My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
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Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.
