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.

Clive Thompson

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I know how critical it is to make sure that people with pre-existing conditions have affordable insurance, and states are able to do that.

John Barrasso

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I remember playing a high school basketball game where I didn't eat anything for breakfast. I ate, you know, like a PB and J and some chips for lunch and nothing before the game. I didn't make it through the first quarter. I wish I hadn't have learned that way, but it did leave a lasting impression.

Andrew Luck

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The alt right is a disinfo group designed to discredit Trump and to frustrate his agenda, which is why David Duke and all those guys go around saying they're pro Trump.

Mike Cernovich

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God has a plan for all of us, but He expects us to do our share of the work.

Minnie Pearl

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I write in cafes, never at home. I cannot focus at home, am forever getting off my chair to do other things. In a cafe, I have to sit still, or I'll look a bit unhinged.

Lisa Jewell

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I do like a lot of the '70s movies. I love Charles Bronson in 'Hard Times.' All my favorite movies where ones from yesteryear. The '70s was a good era. I love all those.

Jason Statham

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National parks are the best expression of social equity that there is. It's like paying our rent for living on the planet.

Douglas Tompkins

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I am going to retire, and it is going to be a permanent retirement.

Art Bell

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The beauty of string theory is that it is all about mathematics. For that, you don't need resources or labs. Just sit in your room and do the maths.

Ashoke Sen

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I try not to do anything that's immoral.

Alice Waters

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I had been in a Shakespeare company for three years and done a lot of Shakespeare. That was fun. That was interesting.

William Shatner

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In my experience, academia is a World War 1 kind of a domain, and I do my best to avoid all that trench warfare.

Timothy Morton

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