James Surowiecki Quotes

Behavioral economists have shown that a sizable percentage of people are willing to pay real money to punish people who are taking from a common pot but not contributing to it. Just to insure that shirkers get what they deserve, we are prepared to make ourselves poorer.

James Surowiecki

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I haven't said anything bad about Fay Vincent publicly, and I won't. I like him personally.

Jerry Reinsdorf

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I was a graduate student at Oxford when I discovered Georgiana.

Amanda Foreman

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If you look at a magazine and something catches your eye, are you not going to open it up to see what's inside?

Summer Altice

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We have to look and ensure that we're paying attention to what we're doing, so that we don't reflexively institute processes and procedures that exclude people without thought.

Sonia Sotomayor

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I try not to judge my characters. If I'm looking at it from the outside, I'd say, 'No, she's not really a great mother.' But she wishes she were, and she wants to be, and she still has instincts toward protecting her son and wanting him to be a happy person.

Mira Sorvino

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That is the great joy: to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love, and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good.

Julia Roberts

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If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.

Jose Marti

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Emmitt Smith has run past legends, danced with stars and posed for the sculptor crafting his Hall of Fame bust. He's built upon his athletic talents by working hard, seizing opportunities and reaching out to others for advice when he needed it.

Don Yaeger

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Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

Demi Lovato

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Many studies or theories by political scientists fit some subset of cases that a court decides, but literally no theory can account for all of them, particularly when it comes to studying a complex institution like the Supreme Court.

David Stras

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I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for 'The Village Voice'.

Colson Whitehead

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I began as a weatherman and I learned very quickly I wasn't very good at it.

Bob Iger

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