James Surowiecki Quotes
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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Recruiting is the hardest part of any business, but in charity, it is 10 times harder.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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Fashions have done more harm than revolutions.
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The cars haven't advanced that much since we were kids. When you boil it down, it's still a gas combustion engine.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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My roles in the '80s were, like, gender dysphoric. I wasn't pretty, I wasn't this, I wasn't that. And I am kind of butchy, you know. That's just my thing.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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My mom was on welfare and the occasional food stamp, but I have never participated in any of those governmental programs, even the ones that kind of work like education, scholarships and whatever, and I managed to do just fine.
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Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there are so few descriptions of Heaven, because most people can't really explain what it would be like beyond a couple of sentences, whereas Hell is quite often personal.
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I lived a very don't-ask, don't-tell life.
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
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I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
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After choosing monetary union, further political union and workable governance in Europe was always going to be necessary.
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I heard he was a terrible student, terrible. How does a bad student go to Columbia and then to Harvard? I'm thinking about it, I'm certainly looking into it. Let him show his records.
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The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do.
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Actors are conditioned to develop a system for expressing as much as they can in the shortest amount of time because you're going to get all cut up in a movie.
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Fury made a name for himself in America, and as a fighter, you have to establish yourself there, first and foremost, to be known worldwide.
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I like telling stories with a sense of humor. But humor can also distance you from the subject you're writing about. I'm interested in using humor as a portal to something a bit more serious.
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You can't be rich unless everyone else agrees that you're rich.
