James Surowiecki Quotes
Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
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I struggle if I have chaos around me, but at the same time, if I don't have it, I'm uncomfortable. It's a strange thing: If I don't have chaos, I create it.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
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In film, you're so much in the hands and at the mercy of the editor, so sometimes it's good to watch it just to see how it turns out - it can be so different than how you imagined it. But sometimes it's better to just let it go for your own sense of self worth.
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I know there is pain when sawmills close and people lose jobs, but we have to make a choice. We need water and we need these forests.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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I didn't feel like I was meant to be a nurse or a secretary.
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I knew on the day that I accepted my job at CNN that a ratings victory at 8 P.M. was going to be a formidable challenge. As I have been told over and over, this is the toughest time slot in cable news.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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Marching thus at night, a battalion is doubly impressive. The silent monster is full of restrained power; resolute in its onward sweep, impervious to danger, it looks a menacing engine of destruction, steady to its goal, and certain of its mission.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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The positive heuristic of the programme saves the scientist from becoming confused by the ocean of anomalies.
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I am Puerto Rican. I think Latinas are sexy, and being one, it has influenced a lot of my style, but being an official Los Angelite, this town has influenced most of my daily style, which is relaxed & easy.
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'Anderson' is what I've been called since I was a kid; my mom is about the only person who calls me 'Mike.'
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A friend of mine rang the box office to collect a ticket I'd reserved for her, and the girl said, 'Who's Lesley Manville?'
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'The Good, the Bad, the Weird' is about individuals fulfilling their desires and just going the distance to fulfill that desire.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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I think Heaven and afterlife is for the living; it's for the people that continue on and remember that person, and if you've done something that is substantial in your life then you can leave a legacy and do something positive.
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Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them.
