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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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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And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally...
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I fear dying in the middle of a book. It would be so annoying to write 80,000 words and not get to the end. I'm phobic about it. So when I'm writing a book I leave messages all over the house for people to know how the story ends, and then someone can finish it for me.
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I think if you have an opportunity to live by example and make people aware of positive changes in our society, I think it's a great thing.
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The Olympics is this big global event, but when neighbours come up and wish you well, it feels more personal.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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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.
