Serge Schmemann Quotes
What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.

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My work was entirely nonfiction.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.
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A new idea - whether it's a way to collect solar energy more efficiently or a cheaper way to desalinate sea water or a new seed to boost the amount of food we can grow - can stretch the physical resources we have, or even multiply them. And the ideas themselves don't ever wear out.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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Disease and ill health are caused largely by damage at the molecular and cellular level, yet today's surgical tools are too large to deal with that kind of problem.
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Bling is good.
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You have to have sympathy for and an empathy with a character in order to play them.
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I never like to wear too much makeup, and sometimes the best makeup is when it's not too perfect. I like to sometimes apply my makeup with my fingers.
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To be the outsider is actually a great thing in England.
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As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.
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I wonder if people who see 'Blade' will have even seen my other movies. But I don't want all my movies to be in a vacuum. I need a balance because one pays, and the other doesn't.
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This is America, not a banana republic.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability.
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I think it's really important to remember that it's a long life, and it's a long career. In a perfect world, your career will be long. It does not begin and end with any one job. The point is to continue to have longevity in your career.
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I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces.
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Something that I've struggled with for awhile is looking at our country voting on sound bites, and to me, character is really important.
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You risk working with this director, you risk making this movie, you risk working with another actor you don't know. It makes your heart beat faster. And it keeps you interested.
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Other families who are poor do what they can to get out of it. My mother did not. She did not utilise her resources. She had a degree. There was something she could have done, but she actively, purposely refused that so we could have this absolutely authentic experience of the worst of capitalism: 'See? Look how bad capitalism is.'
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It's well documented that stop-and-go traffic wears more on a vehicle than consistent-speed highway driving. No matter our driving habits, we all know we must regularly maintain our car's vitals - oil, tires, brakes, etc. Similarly, our brains and bodies perform best with a mindful focus on tasks and a routine maintenance of healthy habits.
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What Paris has done right is to make it awful to get around by car and awfully easy to get around by public transportation or by bike.