Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes
People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I'm so used to changing time zones that I can sleep at any time. I'm rarely ever tossing and turning - if I am, it's really a big deal.
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I don't believe in miracles.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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We're more sexually repressed than men, having been given a much more strict puritanical code of behavior than men ever have.
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I'm trying to focus on the 100 and 200 breaststroke now. There's no point concentrating on the 50 when it's not in the Olympics. I'm not going to quit the 50 but it's not my priority any more. I'll do it but as part of my bid for gold at the other distances.
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America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
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I never thought that I would sell to young people, but now girls who are 14 and 15 buy my shoes.
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The Corona Extra brand was launched in Austin, Texas. From Austin, where it was exclusively for three or four months, it became more widely available in that state and in others, primarily in the southwest and western United States.
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I really like cable T.V.
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One of the things about jail that's weird is that you're sent to a place where you're supposed to sit there and think about your actions and their consequences and why you're there. And I think now, it turns more into - the minute you go there, it's just survival.
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Creation is dominated by three absolutely different factors: First, nature, which works upon us by its laws; second, the artist, who creates a spiritual contact with nature and his materials; third, the medium of expression through which the artist translates his inner world.
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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
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Two headlights shine through the sleepless nightand I will get you, get you aloneYour name has echoed through my mindAnd I just think you should, think you should knowThat nothing safe is worth the driveAnd I will follow you follow you homeI'll follow you follow you home
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The important thing is the storytelling and having a script that makes you feel you're living and breathing through the characters.
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I think technology is us, not something we invented. I think we are more psychic now because we have cell phones and you can look and see who's calling you. When people start seeing technology as us, as humanity, our whole idea of what existence is, is going to shift.
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The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.
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I think losing my father was OK in the sense that it's cool for me not to have a father; it's normal. I'm supposed to bury my father. But what I didn't realize was that my father was my best friend, and that still gets me... that still irritates me a lot.
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The Civic Culture (and The Civic Culture Revisited) remains the best study of comparative political culture in our time.
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People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.
