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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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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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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I worked with these liberal elites for 28 years at CBS News, and they were always throwing around the term 'white trash,' by which they meant poor southerners who didn't go to Harvard. I'm not sure why that makes them trash.
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Obama seemed poised to realign American politics after his stunning 2008 victory. But the economy remains worse than even the administration's worst-case scenarios, and the long legislative battles over health care reform, financial services reform and the national debt and deficit have taken their toll. Obama no longer looks invincible.
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You have to learn a few things, which you do along the way, but basically, poetry is a matter of the ear. Iambic pentameters or what constitutes a stanza comes naturally - your ears will know.
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We believe the singularity is inevitable, and all businesses will be redefined as computers overtake humans in intelligence.
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Every living person and thing responds to beauty. We all thirst for it. We receive strength and renewal by seeing stirring and satisfying sites.
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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.
