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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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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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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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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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Refugees are the human dimensions of a failed state.
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I've heard this before from people: early 20s kind of screws with your head a little bit because you're transitioning into adulthood and actually becoming an adult with responsibilities and paying bills. So all of a sudden, it's like you're responsible now.
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I've been into every doo-wop there is. I think I went to the university of doo-wop-ology.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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Is your remarkably sexist drivel intentional, or just some horrible mistake?
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Herbert Hoover failed through no fault of his own. The Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression were beyond his control, and every remedy he tried failed adequately to work.
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Corner one of the hundreds of doctors who specialize in autism recovery, and they'll tell you stories of dozens of kids in their practice who no longer have autism. Ask them to speak to the press and they'll run for the door. They know better.
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Confidence gives a fool the advantage over a wise man.
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I think all the filmmakers in Hong Kong are influenced by John Woo.
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Once money goes into a charity, it is tax exempt, so that's a benefit you get. And in return, you have to use the assets of the charity to serve the public good. So if Trump is using this money basically to save his businesses, the money isn't helping people. That's a violation of the letter and the spirit of law.
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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.
