James Surowiecki Quotes

Since the Protestant majority in Northern Ireland wants to remain a part of Great Britain, and since Ireland itself has shown little interest in reunification, the IRA's prospects for success through political channels have always been limited.

James Surowiecki

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If you want to do a talk show on network television, you're probably going to wind up having a desk and a band, wearing a suit, and having a sidekick. Audiences want to feel comfortable.

Jimmy Kimmel

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I spend a lot of time with Buddhists. I'm not a Buddhist, but their relationship with death interests me.

Joan Baez

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The great pleasure that comes from reading poets such as Mark Doty and Marianne Moore is the realisation that the essential virtues - compassion, wonder, humility, respect for the mysterious - are far from conventionally heroic.

John Burnside

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That's the scary part about TV, how you'll feel about it in six years.

Jeremy Sumpter

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Being an astronaut, there are not a lot of things that have really shocked me in my life.

John M. Grunsfeld

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Everyone's a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that's something I've been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.

Roman Reigns

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Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was just another movie actor playing opposite a chimpanzee, for heaven's sake. They think Reagan is too naive, too innocent, to grasp the intellectual complexities of cold war strategy.

Russell Baker

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If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.

Mike Myers

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Scott McAdams is a nice guy, but I don't know that most Alaskans believe that he's electable.

Lisa Murkowski

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What I say is that there are not half a dozen papers in the United States which tamper with the news, which publish what they know to be false. But if I thought I had done no better than that, I would be ashamed to own a paper. You have to make everyone connected with the paper believe that accuracy is to a newspaper what virtue is to a woman.

Joseph Pulitzer

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I was born in Dallas, and I grew up both there and in New York City, which was very schizophrenic.

Lesli Linka Glatter

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Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has often appeared to be rudderless and unable to make quick decisions when faced with economic crises, presenting instead an image of division and hopelessness.

Klaus Schwab

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