Gary Marcus Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I believe every era has its significance and the same holds true for players and coaches.
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Editing is the same as quarrelling with writers - same thing exactly.
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If you feel that you are good, don't be too proud of it.
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Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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Magic frightens people almost as much as it intrigues them.
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The so-called skills gap is really a gap in education, and that affects all of us.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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U.N. Security Council resolutions are only as effective as their enforcement.
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Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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Success or failure in business is caused more by the mental attitude even than by mental capacities.
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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I do think it's possible to change for the better.
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In the 1950s and 60s, geopolitical intrigues did not much engage masses in Asia and Africa; it was something for elites to sort out.
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Actions are visible, though motives are secret.
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Andrew Jackson neatly resolved the issue by walking into congress and placing his hand on the Bible they kept there as a reminder of all the virtues they worked so hard to get the voters to believe they possessed.
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One of the joys of teaching with the anthology is to watch the excitement grow as students, who may think the past dull and irrelevant, find how fresh and new and powerful are the kinds of writings that are hundreds of years old.
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I work because I think that I wouldn't feel good about myself unless I was contributing.
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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
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God comes first - if I don't love him, I can't love anybody, and if I can't love me I can't love nobody.
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Namque pauci libertatem, pars magna iustos dominos volunt.
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I've lived on royalties all my life. It is the readers who have supported me.
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“The next major revolution was not technological, but organizational.”
