James Surowiecki Quotes

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Because bribery encourages people to make decisions based on the wrong criteria, which means in the business world that it distorts the efficient allocation of resources.

James Surowiecki

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I love comedies. I love watching them. I think I've always been afraid of being on them a little bit.

Jeremy Sisto

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I like forms that are flexible, that can let you feel creative.

John Scofield

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I'm a lucky guy. No question.

Stedman Graham

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In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good or bad time.

Joni Mitchell

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I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

Chip Kidd

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As long as your heart beats, one is never too old.

Compay Segundo

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I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

Bryan Batt

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If you see everything through the lens, you are constantly composing pictures. I think in pictures; I don't think in text.

Alison Jackson

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Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Woody Allen

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On several occasions President Kennedy encouraged me to take a lover, an obvious sign he also had some himself.

Pierre Salinger

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My own musical ambitions were born when I was five, watching the Ed Sullivan Show on TV. When Elvis Presley burst on to the screen, singing 'Don't Be Cruel,' I felt my first sexual thrill, though I didn't know what it was at the time.

Suzi Quatro

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Of course I've had my moments of wanting to go back to Scotland, and I almost did a couple of times, but other things just came up.

Peter Capaldi

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