James Surowiecki Quotes
The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Tweeting is a very personal form of expression. Who else could talk about my son refusing to wear a suit to meet the Pope, my husband flying a helicopter, or take a twitpic from our home?
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Ugh - I wish I could just sit back and watch TV sometimes.
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While I now own more guns than the 82nd Airborne, my first gun is still the most important gun I've ever owned.
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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.
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Separation is very important to me. I don't strive to be a celebrity. My music has nothing to do with me at the end of the day. Once it's made and it's purchased, it belongs to whoever.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Islamism is not Islam. Islamism is the politicisation of Islam, the desire to impose a version of this ancient faith over society.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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I have a good mind but I don't like to bore anyone with it.
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I always hated to throw a guy out of a game but sometimes it was necessary to keep order.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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I believe if you start a business with the intent of making it huge, you're already prioritizing the wrong thing. Size is important, but it's a byproduct of a whole bunch of other things that are worth way more of your mental energy - customers, service, quality.
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Well, all these stars have their houses swept quite regularly by people who work in the surveillance security business. They come in and they look for bugs and things.
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This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.
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The fundamental problem with banks is what it's always been: they're in the business of banking, and banking, whether plain vanilla or incredibly sophisticated, is inherently risky.
