Clive Thompson Quotes
A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
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In fact, there is clear evidence of black intellectual superiority: in 1984, 92 percent of blacks voted to retire Ronald Reagan, compared to only 36 percent of whites.
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At one level, an award is an endorsement, a confirmation, but I always find myself looking askance at awards and good reviews, as though another Garry Disher had earned them.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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I've got a great staff and great support system, and I'm going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.
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It's good to have a leader, otherwise we argue too much.
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Our leaders are acting like lemmings.
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As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
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If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it.
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Human faces shouldn't get lost amid the statistics.
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I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
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I like boxes because of the secrets they hide.
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Facebook can be an accumulation of different intelligences. Ask a question, translated into many languages and somebody, somewhere in the world, will have an answer.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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I don't think the economy telegraphs very clearly where it's going.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I am not trying to be a historian and a dramatist; I'm a dramatist, a dramatic historian, or one who does a dramatic interpretation of history.
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I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.
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I don't live in the past. I just live in the enjoyment of the game.
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There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.
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Apple has always been, and always will be, a hardware-first company. It produces beautiful devices with elegant designs and humane operating-system software.
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A writer can spend a decade working obsessively on a novel, but in the commerce of publishing, many of the most important decisions about any book will be made based on very short pitches - from literary agent to editor to sales rep to bookstore buyer to a potential reader standing in the bookstore, asking, 'What's it about?'
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying on them to recall information for us.
