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.
Nicholas A. Christakis
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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.
Kate Millett
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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.
Cameron van der Burgh
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Manolo Blahnik
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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.
Carlos Alvarez
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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.
Lane Garrison
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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.
Hans Hofmann
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To blame the existence of al Qaeda on poverty like Egypt's is a slur on the poor.
P. J. O'Rourke
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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.
Jessie Mueller
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My prayer for you, Donald Trump, would be for you to have an opportunity to experience the delight and the joy of what oneness truly is. And if you can have that in your life, if you could feel that feeling in your life, then my prayer would be that your division and your separation, your attack, would dissolve with that boundary.
Gabrielle Bernstein
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My lab and academic work fill my day from about 9 am to 7 p.m. Then I zoom out the lens to work on my other writing.
David Eagleman
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I have a friend in New York who's a stylist and I went over to her place because she's got a lot of clothes. I basically ended up wearing most of it. So it's all stuff that I brought over.
Famke Janssen
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Nowadays, people have an open mind vis-a-vis new artists like Meghan Trainor, Nico & Vinz, Hozier - there are hits coming out of everywhere.
Leighton Paul Walsh
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If you're going to call a book 'The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History,' readers will expect some serious carrying on about race, and Thomas Woods Jr. does not disappoint.
Adam Cohen
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The colours of her heart represented the deeds she'd done, both good and bad, but the faint smell of treacle told her that, overall, she had a sweet heart.
Carrie Fletcher
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I'm definitely not the person who's gonna sit anywhere and tell you that home birth is the only way to have a baby because I don't believe that. But I do think the only way to have a baby is where you feel great about your birth.
Eva Amurri
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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.
Nicholas A. Christakis
