Timothy Noah Quotes

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

Timothy Noah

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TechnologyLogicDownProfitSales

I went from being totally unknown to getting stopped every time I went out. I always wanted to be successful, but I have never wanted to become a celebrity. I never, ever, craved that.

Jimmy Nail

TimeUnknownBecomeCelebrityNever

I think there's a void for some authentic soul music with an edge. I think there's some people who grew up with Motown and Stevie Wonder that still can appreciate Future, Drake, and all these different things, too, but there shouldn't be a void for those people, as well.

Anderson Paak

FutureMusicSoulPeopleThinkEdge

As an alcoholic, you have no appreciation for your wife or your children's feelings, but I'm making up for that now. I'm winning my children's trust back.

Maurice Gibb

ChildrenTrustWifeAppreciationYou

I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten

New YorkShoppingPlaceNewNothing

Anyone can be James Dean for a day.

Michael Bastian

DayJames DeanAnyoneJamesDean

As a geek, I take umbrage at the notion that chips are not sexy. But yes, robots, drones, satellites and self-driving cars are the kinds of things that excite me.

Steve Jurvetson

MeSexyRobotsDronesYesTake

I work really hard. Walk-throughs, I take everything seriously.

Stefon Diggs

WorkSeriouslyHardEverythingTake

Making dance music is a spiritual thing. It's about being completely absorbed by rhythm and vibration, so much so that the petty stuff of life stops mattering.

Sophie Hawley-Weld

LifeMusicDanceSpiritualRhythm

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

Steve Vai

TimeMiserableKeepOnlyOnly Time

The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.

Toyin Odutola

GreatSocial MediaPeopleMediaNow

Obama wants people, as many people as he can get, covered by the government, exchanges, however you want to phrase it, and the more the better, and the sooner, the better, making it impossible to take it away. Meaning, making it impossible to repeal Obamacare.

Rush Limbaugh

GovernmentPeopleImpossibleBetter

It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

Mary Steenburgen

PeopleThinkTestHollywoodOutGet

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