Steven Johnson Quotes

As much as we sometimes roll our eyes at the ivory-tower isolation of universities, they continue to serve as remarkable engines of innovation.

Steven Johnson

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It's not always easy being a full-time feminist - especially as a young woman - when you're constantly being told that what you do is irrelevant. I'm on the defense all the time.

Jessica Valenti

TimeWomanEasyYouYoungAlways

The idea that you won't have a job is a real fear that people go through, so when people talk about jobs and say, 'I'm gonna create jobs!' or, 'There's gonna be a loss of jobs,' those are just words. But the reality of someone actually losing their job - I mean, it's their entire life for most people in this country.

Miriam Shor

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They want to do the right thing, most people. For that little core that doesn't want to do the right thing and gets away with it routinely, most people want to see them get a good whupping. And I am your girl.

Judy Sheindlin

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I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad.

Jonathan Raymond

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At my age, I dare say I've kind of established myself, and I don't have to chase a paycheck.

Chris Cooper

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Once I retire, I would definitely love to be a DJ. That would be fun.

Chris Harris, Jr.

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It's very rare when we are in control of everything. Sure, I can learn my lines, I can know my character really well, but there are so many factors going on throughout the day.

Brie Larson

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We're all kind of basically involved in the same thing, putting up a blank of some kind and filling it in.

William T. Wiley

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I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.

Princess Eugenie of York

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I've seen some good friends playing mini-tour golf, and they just don't seem as happy as I am playing the game.

Scott Harvey

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Historians are going to look back on rising China and say America, at least under the Bush years, did not get that wrong.

Thomas P.M. Barnett

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The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence.

Leonardo da Vinci

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