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Information Cascades: The Tragic Rationality of Bubbles Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

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• I love researching, I love interviewing.

  

  Quiara Alegria Hudes
  • I Love
  • Interviewing
  • Researching

• It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • People
  • Couple
  • Missing

• The food in Sydney is an Asian Pacific cuisine. It's eclectic but above all it's fresh, inventive and creative and that's what I love about it.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • Food
  • Creative
  • Fresh

• Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Power
  • Attitude
  • Unique

• That Shaw is the most egotistical thing! He hogged the camera and spent more time with the hairdresser and the makeup man than any actor on the lot!

  

  Lana Turner
  • Time
  • Man
  • Makeup

• I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go. One of the most daring things I've done is drop out of graduate school. I had no job, but something inside me was saying, 'Go! Be in the world!' I had to listen to myself, and it worked out. I still think, 'Who was that girl?'

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • World
  • School
  • Done

• Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Work
  • God
  • Tired

• And how fascinating history is - the long, variegated pageant of man's still continuing evolution of this strange planet, so much the most interesting of all the myriads of spinners through space.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Long
  • History
  • Interesting

• The autumn comes, a maiden fair In slenderness and grace, With nodding rice-stems in her hair And lilies in her face. In flowers of grasses she is clad; And as she moves along, Birds greet her with their cooing glad Like bracelets' tinkling song.

  

  Kalidasa
  • She
  • Song
  • Moving

• Love knows no winter; no, no! It is, and remains the sign of spring.

  

  Ludwig Tieck
  • Love
  • Knows
  • Spring

• The Gospel Prayer

  

  J. D. Greear
  • Joy
  • Prayer
  • Compassion

• Childhood is the one prison from which there's no escape, the one sentence from which there's no appeal. We all serve our time.

  

  P. D. James
  • Time
  • Childhood

• I think I had pretty clearly telegraphed that I was going to be proclaiming (approval of all ballot measures) before I went to Mexico. Anybody could have read those tea leaves.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • I Think
  • Mexico
  • Tea Leaves

• What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait...

  

  Hattie McDaniel
  • Hollywood
  • Price
  • Sincerity

• A democracy is a state which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of violence by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Democracy
  • Violence
  • Class

• I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.

  

  Woodrow Wilson
  • Government
  • Groups
  • Majority

• Bolivia is a majority indigenous nation, but that majority has always been excluded.

  

  Evo Morales
  • Nations
  • Majority
  • Indigenous

• Information Cascades: The Tragic Rationality of Bubbles Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.

  

  Brian Christian
  • Majority
  • Information Cascades
  • Tragic Rationality of Bubbles