Clive Thompson Quotes
When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I believed I was invincible.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.
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You don't run from the bad things in life; learn from them, because your worst is what will lead you to your best.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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The question for France and all countries is, 'Do you favour foreign Internet operators that do not pay, or do you favour national operators who pay?'
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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My dad is Scottish, and he read in the newspaper about the plight of the Scottish Freshwater Mussel, which is a real thing - like, a very real, serious conservation issue. And he's a writer, and he was going to do a film about a Glaswegian gangster, and then I stole the idea and turned it into a romantic comedy.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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At the end of the spectrum when you get to that 12th step, when you have that spiritual awakening we make ourselves available to help other people.
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At age 26, I was chairman of UB Group but living like a 26-year-old. I lived my age. Which youngster doesn't like a Ferrari? Which youngster doesn't like a good time?... but my contemporaries were R. S. Goenka and Dhirubhai Ambani, captains of the industry but twice my age. You wouldn't necessarily expect them to be driving around in Ferraris.
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We need to take music out of the ivory tower - both for musicians and for the public. Otherwise, classical music will not survive the 21st century.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess.
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I grew up pretty much with nothing.
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Government is a health hazard. Governments have killed many more people than cigarettes or unbuckled seat belts ever have.
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I am very excited to be able to work more with young designers and support them.
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My father - until the day that my dad died - didn't know how many points you scored in a touchdown. He could say there were nine innings in baseball, but no intricacies of the sport.
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Looking back on those days and little leaguer, the Hall of Fame is not even a blinking star, but through baseball travels and moving up the ladder, that star begins to flicker.
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My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.
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The funny thing about these uniforms is that you hang them in the closet and they get smaller and smaller.
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When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.
