James Surowiecki Quotes

Politically speaking, it's always easier to shell out money for a disaster that has already happened, with clearly identifiable victims, than to invest money in protecting against something that may or may not happen in the future.

James Surowiecki

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FutureMoneyAlwaysOutClearlyMay

I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

Jeremih

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I feel weird when I go to the movies and everybody's faces are perfect.

Melanie Lynskey

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When you think about the complexity of our natural world - plants using quantum mechanics for photosynthesis, for example - a smartphone begins to look like a pretty dumb object.

Jeff Vandermeer

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I don't mind if someone yells a motto out of their car at me. 'No touching! No touching!' No harm is done.

Jeffrey Tambor

CarMottoMindMeSomeoneDone

In many biological structures proteins are simply components of larger molecular machines.

Michael Behe

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Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.

Johnny Carson

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I like people who are predictable.

Amy Schumer

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There's nothing wrong with celebrating the good things in our past. But memories, like witnesses, do not always tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. We need to cross-examine them, recognizing and accepting the inconsistencies and gaps in those that make us proud and happy as well as those that cause us pain.

Stephanie Coontz

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Football is pretty much played 16 times a year, where training is kind of a year-round thing.

Troy Polamalu

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If you wrote something, you deserve to get paid and recognized for your work. No one should take a bow with another man's hat.

Ronald Isley

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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

Derek Luke

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Lots of people ask me for advice as if I somehow have found some easy way to create a solution to a problem, and there's no such thing.

Dean Kamen

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