Ben Mezrich Quotes
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Any job very well done that has been carried out by a person who is fully dedicated is always a source of inspiration.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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All we need is a meteorologist who has once been soaked to the skin without ill effect. No one can write knowingly of the weather who walks bent over on wet days.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.
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My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied.
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Insults are the business of the court.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
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So I have cultivated the vast garden of human experience which is history, without troubling myself overmuch about laws, essential first causes, or how it is all coming out.
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I never get recognized. Most of the time, when people think they know me, they believe I'm a member of their family. And that's the way I like it. That's just fine.
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Massages are my favorite. Sometimes just getting myself outside for a walk if I'm really busy can be an indulgence. I love taking naps. I love to stay up too late with close friends. I believe in everything in moderation. I take what I like and leave what I don't.
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I have plenty of invitations to go places, lots to do. If I'm not working, I go to have my hair taken care of and work at needlepoint.
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People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation.
