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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Harry Dresden: Paranoia is a survival trait when you run in my circles. It gives you something to do in your spare time, coming up with solutions to ridiculous problems that aren't ever going to happen. Except when one of them does, at which point you feel way too vindicated.
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In TV, sometimes you get lost in the fog of the scene, and when you're working with such good actors, they can bring you into the scene.
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A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.
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We think that it is the best scientists working in the frontier fields of science who are best able to judge what is good and what is bad - if any - in the application of their scientific research.
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Good guys are a dime a dozen, but an aggressive leader is priceless.
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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.
