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James Surowiecki Quotes

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

James Surowiecki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: April 30, 1967

Topics

World Rest Try Cheap Human Products

Newspapers are so boring. How can you read a newspaper that starts with a 51-word lead sentence?

You Boring Newspaper Lead Starts

I feel like sometimes I get even more goofy onstage than I am offstage. I'm not trying to make the music less than what it is. Even if it's hard for me and I have to think about a lot of details, it's none of the audience's business. I don't want them to feel that I'm having a hard time.

Business Music Time I Am Me Think

I have huge respect for whistle-blowers, people who stand up against their bosses and losing their careers, just for truth and justice.

Truth Respect Justice Losing People

I don't keep a Bucket List. I'm open to anything.

Open Anything Keep Bucket List

Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.

Freedom Great Dance Ice Skating

Films about women and their concerns are seen as frivolous, limited and, most damaging of all, niche.

Women Niche Seen Most Frivolous

Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'

Me Saying Think Wish Talking You

As an actor, it's so, so rewarding and so pleasing to not be reprimanded.

Actor Rewarding Pleasing

I grew up hearing stories about how my maternal grandfather had put himself through engineering school in New York City. He saved money by walking down to a gas station once a week to take a shower. When I applied to college, both education and investment value were important to me.

Education Money School Value College

My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

Father Relationship Me Champion Hard

In the giraffe with a total height of 5 m., the heart is at a height of about 2.5 m., and it would be extremely interesting to know just how the giraffe avoids the development of filtration oedema in its long legs.

Heart Interesting Long Know Legs

A smile abroad is often a scowl at home.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Smile Home Abroad Often

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