Clive Thompson Quotes

Politicians or pundits can distort or cherry-pick climate science any way they want to try and gain temporary influence with the public. But any serious industrialist who's facing 'climate exposure' - as it's now called by money managers - cannot afford to engage in that sort of self-delusion.

Clive Thompson

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Beauty is composed of an eternal, invariable element whose quantity is extremely difficult to determine, and a relative element which might be, either by turns or all at once, period, fashion, moral, passion.

Jean-Luc Godard

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There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.

Jeanette Winterson

WhoManyFeltSeparateCreatively

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

Amy Tan

FailureFearExpected

I don't really talk about my personal life. It's a strange and funny and weird thing. Sometimes you have a conversation with someone and the paparazzi snaps a picture of you and people decide you're dating. If I try to answer everything people say, I would be up all night.

Tracee Ellis Ross

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We're going to move from a commodity economy where you basically grow the same kind of crops - where a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn is a kernel of corn - to an ingredient economy where there will be a kernel of corn that will be designed for fuel, there will be a kernel of corn designed for livestock.

Tom Vilsack

GrowYouKindWillEconomyCorn

If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.

Masayoshi Son

GovernmentStartEnoughNewQuick

I would love to just keep working with really great directors who really inspire me.

Matt Bomer

LoveGreatMeInspireKeepWorking

I try to make very careful decisions about what I choose to do, and it's - I know that unfortunately one of the misperceptions about me, I think, is that I'm sort of a moth to the limelight.

Monica Lewinsky

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When I was 16, I played Macbeth at school and my English teacher said, 'I think you may have acting talent. Try to get into the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain and see where you get.' I wouldn't have thought of that at all. I wanted to be a surgeon, but I wasn't a clever man.

David Suchet

TeacherGreatManSchoolTalent

Anything popular is populist, and populist is rarely a good adjective.

Brian Eno

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Though I'd have to say it was generally the guys in Detroit, as a group, that won the two Championships. They were terrific and I always look back very fondly.

Chuck Daly

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The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a war crime.

Antony Beevor

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