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James Surowiecki Quotes

A consumer-finance agency is a good thing, but it would do well to teach consumers a simple lesson: if you don't understand the deal you're making, don't make it.

James Surowiecki

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Good Simple You Lesson Understand

For the longest time, people would say to me that I didn't feel very modern, that I seemed from another time.

Jessica Chastain

Time People Me Feel Say Modern

I've always navigated my way around the comedy writing rooms because I didn't want to cater to this side and that side; I just wanted to be liked by everybody.

Jermaine Fowler

Writing Comedy Want Way Always Side

I don't have a pet, but I dream of someday getting a pug dog whom I will name Croque Monsieur so that I may alternate between calling him Croque, Monsieur or his full name: Croque Monsieur. I'll more than likely only use his first and last name most often when he's been bad.

John Gallagher, Jr.

Dog Pet Name Bad Dream Will

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

Megan Fox

Look Windows Paparazzi Because

I wasn't attractive when I was growing up, and I don't think I am now.

Matthew Lewis

I Am Growing Up Think Growing Now

In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Siri Hustvedt

Sleep World Outside Leave Behind

'Drag Race' is sort of like trying to lift weights - like, 50 pounds when you should've been lifting 20.

Trixie Mattel

Trying You Lift Race Drag Been

It's definitely an intrinsic part of my makeup that makes me want to see black when everyone else is seeing white.

Shirley Manson

Me Makeup Black Seeing White Want

Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources.

Ronald Reagan

Tough Pollution Go Air Standards

I think the central mission in Afghanistan right now is to protect the people, certainly, and that would be inclusive of everybody, and that in a, in an insurgency and a counterinsurgency, that's really the center of gravity.

Michael Mullen

People Think Mission Gravity Protect

There is no happiness outside of ourselves.

Bryant H. McGill

Happiness Outside Ourselves

I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That's interesting and exciting.

Antony Beevor

Interesting Assumptions Find Way