Jeffrey Kluger Quotes

It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

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• I drove long distances like the 24 hours of Le Mans for years. But even this racing is now over. I retired.

  

  Jacky Ickx
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  • Now
  • Racing

• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  

  Camille Paglia
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  • Think
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• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
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  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.

  

  Pat Riley
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  • Success
  • Leadership

• We have a structural problem because you can simultaneously understand the medium to long-term risks of climate change and also come to the conclusion that it is in your short-term economic interest to invest in oil and gas. Which is why, you know, anybody who tells you that the market is going to fix this on its own is lying to you.

  

  Naomi Klein
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  • Why
  • Change

• Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.

  

  Walker Evans
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  • Die
  • Listen

• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

  

  Frances McDormand
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  • Good
  • Great

• The real problem at the moment is that the banks - because of their existing culture, which is frankly anti-business, obsession with short-term trading profits, not focusing on the long term - are throttling the recovery of British industry.

  

  Vince Cable
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  • Real
  • Business

• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • People
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  • Today

• As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.

  

  Barbara Cartland
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  • Space
  • Go

• It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.

  

  Barack Obama
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  • Trying
  • Doubt

• But it seems that the judging maybe they shouldn't at least see the practices all week long. That can taint the way they go into the judging and the outlook of what's going to happen, instead of just watching those four minutes and judging on those minutes alone.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
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• It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

  

  Queen Christina
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  • Self

• Life is one long jubilee.

  

  Ira Gershwin
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  • Jubilee

• For a long time, society put obstacles in the way of women who wanted to enter the sciences.

  

  Sally Ride
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  • Women

• People understand what is good for them in the long run. In the long run, what is good for people is that India's economy continues to grow at clipping pace, 8% and above, that itself brings host of benefits to the people. It brings better roads, it brings better schools, brings more money to the communities, it brings more jobs.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Good
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• I love Fall Fashion Week because it means lots of layering, long sweaters and vintage coats.

  

  Rachel Zoe
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  • Fashion
  • Means

• They kept me in short pants as long as they could, until they were shaving the hair on my legs because it was beginning to photograph.

  

  Jackie Cooper
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  • Beginning
  • Hair

• My wardrobe falls into two camps most of the time: either very monochromatic and tailored or really vintagey, with '30s and '40s-style long floral dresses. I don't buy that much, so every time I invest in something new, it has to elevate what I have hanging in my closet.

  

  Emily Weiss
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  • Style

• When my family all got together, I'd always get up and entertain everyone, but it was all a bit of a joke. My first real memory of singing for people was when I was about eleven or 12.

  

  Duffy
  • People
  • Up
  • Real

• Hopefully, reading and being around great literature inspires me to write songs, but I'm not sure about that.

  

  Mat Kearney
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  • Reading
  • Literature

• It is simplest to think of mathematics as the catalogue of all possible patterns. ...When viewed in this way, it is inevitable that the world is described by mathematics. ...In many ways the search for a Theory of Everything is a manifestation of a faith that this compression goes all the way down to the bedrock of reality...

  

  John D. Barrow
  • World
  • Reality
  • Faith

• It's not mere extremism that makes folks at the fringes so troubling; it's extremism wedded to false beliefs. Humans have long been dupes, easily gulled by rumors and flat-out lies.

  

  Jeffrey Kluger
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  • Lies
  • Rumors