James Surowiecki Quotes
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I love the game and I am so lucky to be able to do what I love.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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I was sent the script for 'Silver Linings' when I was doing a play in D.C. at The Kennedy Center with Cate Blanchett and I was sent the script and asked if I was interested, and I said 'Oh, boy am I!'
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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Over the years, I have realized that there's more to a film's fate than just good acting and a solid script. It needs to be marketed well. It's the package that sells - the songs, action, actors, etc.
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I often think about death, and it saddens me to leave this world and not be able to paint more. I love it so much.
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There have been times - and not just on 'The Newsroom,' but on 'The West Wing,' 'Sports Night,' 'Studio 60'... - where it was hard to look the cast and crew in the eye, when I put a script on the table that I knew just wasn't good enough.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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My mother, Robin Bell, is the master of balancing the finite line between classic and creative when it comes to fashion. Mom has no qualms about unleashing the pinking shears on a vintage Givenchy dress if it means she'll wear it more once it's sleeveless.
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The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.
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Although I still have a long way to go, I would like to become the pride of Asia. When another Asian artist enters the U.S. market, I would like him to think, 'There was an artist called Rain who succeeded in the U.S. market.' This is my dream.
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As long as humans have existed, we have always desired to live longer. Every society, every religion, every culture. Of course, they all failed at dramatic life extension.
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I think that men need to have a little bit of manism. You have feminism. I don't have a problem with that.
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Beware of the manipulativeness of rich students who were neglected by their parents. They love to turn the campus into hysterical psychodramas of sexual transgression, followed by assertions of parental authority and concern. And don’t look for sexual enlightenment from academe, which spews out mountains of books but never looks at life directly.
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Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?
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What's the difference between a Republican and a Democrat? There is a greater difference between what I think in the morning and what I think in the afternoon than between those two parties.
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I was astonished to see him in Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him tonight in Samarra.
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A friend who is near and dear may in time become as useless as a relative.
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Montaigne the I-sayer. 'I' as space, not as position.
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Until you've had depression I don't think you're qualified to talk about it.
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In 'Attachments,' which is told from a male point of view, people asked me if a man would really think that much about whether a woman likes him. But I have a husband and three brothers, and they're all like that.
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I would have had the same narrative, regardless of the atmosphere and the restrictions.
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Of course, presidents are always blamed or rewarded for the state of the economy.
