James Surowiecki Quotes

Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

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• The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Sorry

• Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Great
  • Change
  • Years

• In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.

  

  Manfred Eigen
  • Practice
  • Difference
  • Theory

• I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Sad
  • Right
  • Very

• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Religion
  • Sex
  • 20th Century

• Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Play
  • Sometimes
  • Cricket

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

  

  A. J. P. Taylor
  • More
  • Communism
  • Crusade

• At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Night
  • Dressing
  • Outfit

• The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Done
  • History

• I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Up
  • Time
  • Writing

• I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Alone
  • Space
  • Creative

• I just don't think men fancy me.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Men
  • Think
  • Me

• I open the doors for everybody all the time.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Time
  • Doors
  • Open

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• When I go from a role with heavy prosthetic makeup, which I've done quite a bit of as well, and then do a role where I'm not wearing any, I have to be conscious of toning everything down.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • Done
  • Makeup
  • Down

• I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Writing
  • Questions
  • Without

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Guy
  • Free

• One of the first coaches I worked with on the national team told me that I was too skinny, too puny, and had no natural acceleration. He said I'd be better off looking for another facet of sport to follow. That was a really, really bad moment. For a long time, I felt as if my dad was the only one who had faith in me.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Time
  • Long
  • Bad

• Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Live

• Have a hand in your own treatment. I have nothing but praise for our doctors, but I think they could help us better, and we can help them if we work together.

  

  Mary Ann Mobley
  • Work
  • Together
  • Help

• Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • World
  • Real
  • Progress

• Of course, plenty of people don't think that guaranteeing affordable health insurance is a core responsibility of government.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • People
  • Health
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