Matthew Yglesias Quotes
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Winning the World Cup was very special because it meant so much to so many. One thing about our country that is constant is cricket. The smile it brought to people's faces was the thing I shall always remember. It reminded me, reminded all of us, of our importance to the lives of the Indian people less lucky than we are.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.
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Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general.
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I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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Let the people on both sides keep their self-possession, and just as other clouds have cleared away in due time, so will this, and this great nation shall continue to prosper as before.
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I'm probably proudest of being able to lift a lot of us out of the 'hood. That's the biggest thing, that I've been able to employ a lot of people and give them opportunities.
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I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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One of the things we found out as we filmed with people who dealt with chimps, and with all animals, and it's really incredible, is their levels of intelligence that we don't recognize right away.
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As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.
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My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees, whether in a for-profit business or a not-for-profit, should keep in mind: A little extravagance goes a long way.
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I trained in medicine in India, and after that, I chose psychiatry as my specialty, much to the dismay of my mother and all my family members who kind of thought neurosurgery would be a more respectable option for their brilliant son.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Americans believe that you can alter people by conversion, and that everybody in the world is a potential American. The Chinese also believe that their values are universal, but they do not believe that you can convert to becoming a Chinese unless you are born into it.
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I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.
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There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.
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I've been asked who I would pay to watch to play tennis, and Roger would be one of the few.
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The only useful function of a statistician is to make predictions, and thus to provide a basis for action.
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I'm trying to inform people, so I try to present them with accurate information.
