Edward Glaeser Quotes
Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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I was interned in Auschwitz for one year. I didn't bring back anything, except for a few jokes, and that filled me with shame. Then again, I didn't know what to do with this fresh experience. For this experience was no literary awakening, no occasion for professional or artistic introspection.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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When I first started writing, I used to listen to music all the time because it would make time pass more quickly. And then I started to wonder if the music wasn't affecting my writing in ways that I didn't necessarily intend.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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It should be no surprise that religion in the non-western world has failed to disappear under the juggernaut of industrial capitalism, or that liberal democracy finds its most dedicated saboteurs among the new middle classes.
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All great rebellions are born of private acts of civil disobedience that inspire rebel bands to plot together.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes.
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I can Do all that angels can. I enjoy like them, Like men besides, like men in light secluded, Enjoying angels.
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When I make a fist, it's strong, and you can't tear it apart. As long as there's unity, there's strength.
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When I'm performing music, it's like I'm doing a big improv.
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I don't know if I see myself as an actress for the rest of my life.
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You want to be with a girl who likes you for you. Just be yourself and forget all of the stuff you read in 'GQ' magazine.
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At Intuit, we've introduced concepts like unstructured time to enable individuals and small teams to be entrepreneurial and identify new processes or product ideas.
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But, you see, the theatre is not always art in America.
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Shammiji is said to be India's answer to Elvis Presley, but I say that Elvis Presley is America's answer to Shammi Kapoor. The mark of a good actor is the belief with which he gives a shot and Shammiji gave his each shot with a strong belief and that makes him a great actor of all times.
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Long before folks fretted the demise of 'quantitative easing,' I fretted its existence. It proved the reverse of its image, an antistimulus, and we've done okay not because of it, but despite it.
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Twentieth-century urban America didn’t belong to the skyscraper; it belonged to the car.
