Stacey D'Erasmo Quotes

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Anatole France

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I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

John Oates

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We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.

Robert J. Shiller

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I ain't going to chase someone around. I ain't going to talk about someone that ain't talking about me.

Max Holloway

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I believe the relationships and emotions you experience when you have success are the things that last forever.

Matt Holliday

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Well, my wife and I were married in a toilet - it was a marriage of convenience!

Tommy Cooper

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The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Frost

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I never make notes; just a few small details when I'm writing, but nothing much. The plot is never written down. I will tell the story to myself, but I won't plan it. I'll speak the narrative in my head for a while.

Ruth Rendell

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I was researching my family tree, and I was deeply hoping I was going to turn out to be Eastern European, but I'm not.

Miranda Otto

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Men are the sport of circumstances when it seems circumstances are the sport of men.

Lord Byron

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Open debate is our strongest tool in standing up to extremism. The far more dangerous avenue is to force extremist ideas underground, where they can fester without competition.

Jonas Gahr Store

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I handed out flyers in malls, candies in gasoline stations; helped set up tarpaulins in bars. I played bit roles in several indie movies. Looking back, I can say it has definitely been a long journey.

Coco Martin

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