James Surowiecki Quotes
Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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For working people and union members, Labor Day stands for something special and profound. It's a day to honor the deep commitment each of us has to serve the children we teach, the families we heal, and the communities we love.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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I'm not a nice person.
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I think the one that's going to be the hardest to make into a film is the one that's probably going to be made into a film, which is 'The Art of Racing in the Rain.' I mean, it's narrated by a dog. How do you do that? But hopefully we'll get to see.
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Am I a criminal? The world knows I'm not a criminal. What are they trying to put me in jail for? You've lost common sense in this society because of religious fanaticism and dogma.
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Around-the-clock support is crucial for children receiving palliative care. They and their families often need help every hour of every day, both in hospices and at home.
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Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the great love God showed in giving us in Christ a pledge of His love; for love calls for love in return. Let us strive to keep this always before our eyes and to rouse ourselves to love Him.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
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Let's face it. I'm an open book.
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My religion would be a gentle faith that believed in the sacredness of leisure. Napping as a form of prayer.
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.
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Slavery is, as you justly complain, a sad blot on our free country.
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If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.
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When you get married and have children, and you start having hits and success and your business starts growing, there's less and less time for songwriting.
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Men won't read any email from a woman that's over 200 words long.
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It happens a little bit more in the West, where there's more fluid - where everybody's originally from somewhere else. So they have a little bit more permission to do it. It happens the least, at the individual level at least, in the South, because the South has very strong, you know, set up black churches and white churches and a long history of that, and so it's a bigger social cost.
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I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.
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Whenever she felt like crying, she would instead become angry—at someone else or at herself—which meant that it was rare for her to shed tears.
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Campaigns fail if they waste resources courting voters who are unpersuadable or already persuaded. Their most urgent task is to find and persuade the few voters who are genuinely undecided and the larger number who are favorably disposed but need a push to actually vote.
