Clive Thompson Quotes
Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
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I was born and brought up in Chennai, as the entire Telugu film industry was based there.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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There is a role and function for beauty in our time.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists.
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Capitalism is about adventurers who get harmed by their mistakes, not people who harm others with their mistakes.
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Authenticity means erasing the gap between what you firmly believe inside and what you reveal to the outside world.
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Our soldiers show every single day that they are more than good enough.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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When I was a child we were sufficiently well off for me to be a picky eater and I still cannot eat vegetables cooked in the traditional British manner.
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Jazz has been such a force in music, that any musician, including classical composers, have been influenced, and obviously performers, also.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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Letting the facts speak for themselves is an immoral principle when we all know that facts and figures can be selected to prove anything.
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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
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People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
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A guitar can be so human, so sorrowful, so angry, and I wanted to figure out how to achieve that vibe without having to actually use guitars, because 'Badlands' is a very futuristic record - and making it that in an era of futuristic music is a really hard thing to do!
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I'm just gonna be doing stuff that I really enjoy doing. I'm not gonna attempt to be current in any way other than the fact that people will like what I'm doing currently.
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I took it upon myself to paint a better picture of rural life and what it is all about.
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There are actually three French companies, one of them in the public sector, from which we are buying the submarines and not two.
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The movie I've seen a million times is 'Steel Magnolias,' directed by Herbert Ross, starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts.
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I had many boxing matches with my brother in the backyard when we were younger, and I guess while other people abhor boxing for its brutality, I also have to admire anyone who climbs into the ring to face up to what could be the ultimate defeat.
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I really like intimate venues because it feels like everyone in the audience is in on all our inside jokes. We could say things and people will catch them. That couldn't happen at a festival because nobody would catch it. I also like that in a smaller space people can be talking to each other and listening to the music; they don't have to be watching you the whole time.
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Transactive memory works best when you have a sense of how your partners' minds work - where they're strong, where they're weak, where their biases lie. I can judge that for people close to me. But it's harder with digital tools, particularly search engines.
