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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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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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 don't want to sound like an aesthete, but one has to be true to the art. And that means being true to the tradition of the art but also being true to your own artistic vision.
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Pop culture's gotten much more disposable.
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You know I was just taking a dump one day, and then as I sat there I realized, I really do deserve better.
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Unless the story line carries the scenes, the scenes don't really mean anything.
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Atheism is aristocratic; the idea of a great Being that watches over oppressed innocence and punishes triumphant crime is altogether 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.
