James Surowiecki Quotes
To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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Clothing and makeup and hair and all of that so much indicates the kind of person you are inside and the person you are presenting on the outside. Sometimes they are in conflict, and sometimes they are the same. That psychology of the exterior informing the interior is just so interesting.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.
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'Bruce Lee' didn't work, and there were apprehensions about what the fans might say. People might have commented that Charan could have waited for some time before selecting me again. But that's what makes it a real achievement to me. People want to work with me because of the comfort level; nobody would work with you again otherwise.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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Everything I do now is a first.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
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I haven't seen it this busy since I've been an IndyCar driver. So I think that's a great kind of thing that's happening for the IndyCar Series, in general, right now. But it's an event that I'm very proud to be part of. I love it. I can't wait to come back next year.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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Every time a pundit or elected official is on any TV news program, it should be a polite formality to mention that GE has made such and such billions off the war in Iraq by selling arms or that Murdoch is a right-wing activist with a clear stake in who wins and who taxes his profits the least.
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Thirteen years I took on this last book.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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Gabby called it 'Congress on Your Corner' - just an updated version of government of and by and for the people.
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My grandfather was a politician and lived in Washington, D.C., so as a kid, I used to go to D.C. every other weekend.
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It is very easy to get people focused on children.
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A round of golf is the ideal antidote to stress.
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I love traditions. I mean, cultural ones.
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To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately, to get to the useful information, you have to wade through reams of useless stuff, with little guidance on how to distinguish between the two.
