James Surowiecki Quotes
Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
James Surowiecki
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I feel like I missed a whole period of my childhood because I had a bunch of stressful things happen to me when I was like 17, 18, when people usually feel the most free in life, like going to college and like anything is possible.
Jack Antonoff
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What I find fascinating is the idea that we all have a physical brain, but we also have this mental part, and we have to figure out how they work together.
Sam Kean
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These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.
Karen Handel
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Beneficial in theory, so-called free trade agreements far too often have been detrimental to the United States economy and the manufacturing sector that forms its central pillar.
Dan Kildee
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
Ford Frick
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
Ed Begley, Jr.
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As an actress, it's part of your job to be able to imagine just about anything - even if it's not within your personal experience.
Rachel Weisz
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If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
Salman Rushdie
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I wanted to be what my high-school civics and history teacher thought of as a good American. That automatically involved taking an interest in government.
Olivia De Havilland
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Twitter may have a cute-sounding name, but it exists, it generates a ton of content, it implicates all types of people, and it has nuances that are important to get right. Hopefully, its careless rendering by sloppy journalists won't lead to the dumbification of America.
Rachel Sklar
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There is never hesitation about doing stand-up. It's just me doing my thing. Unlike being in a band or a play or something, I don't have to rely on anyone else but me.
Hal Sparks
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My dad recently reminded me that my grandfather's cousin was Lefty Frizzell.
Parker Posey
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Someone handed me Mexico City Blues in St. Paul Minnesota in 1959 and it blew my mind. It was the first poetry that spoke my own language.
Bob Dylan
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I'm sick of it when people start to say it: 'Aren't you amazing?' If they start to say it, I hit them.
Anne Reid
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I love being on tour and having my own tour bus.
Pauly D
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I have now reigned above fifty years in victory and peace, beloved by my subjects, dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to be wanting for my felicity. In this situation, I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot: they amount to fourteen. O man, place not thy confidence in this present world!
Abd-ar-Rahman III
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I had this image stuck in my mind. I was four and I was walking down the street, holding my brother’s hand. I wondered if it was a memory or a dream. Or a hope.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.
James Surowiecki
