James Surowiecki Quotes

From a social point of view, it's beneficial that homeownership encourages commitment to a given town or city. But, from an economic point of view, it's good for people to be able to leave places where there's less work and move to places where there's more.

James Surowiecki

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I'm grateful to be successful, and I'm grateful that we can make a living, and I hope we can maintain our integrity forever. That's really my only dream. The notion of bigness or smallness, I feel like that comes and goes in such waves that are kind of out of my control.

Jim James

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Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself. While my time on Batman was important and exciting and notable considering the characters that came out of it, it was really just the start of my life.

Jerry Robinson

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I just have to relax before each shot, and let it happen knowing that I've done it a million times before.

Jennifer Wyatt

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I once threw myself a surprise party on Twitter because I was lonely. It was awesome. Thousands of people showed up and then Wil Wheaton and I made a bunch of monkey-ponies. It was the most successful surprise party I've ever thrown in my life. It was also the only surprise party I've ever thrown in my whole life.

Jenny Lawson

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We take things at face value, don't we? You form an opinion about something immediately, but you ought to step back a bit. Take in the vista first.

Maxine Peake

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When I am on stage, I give everything. Maybe because of that, I won't last long, but I don't care.

Anna Netrebko

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I don't know how to write a novel in the world of cellphones. I don't know how to write a novel in the world of Google, in which all factual information is available to all characters. So I have to stand on my head to contrive a plot in which the characters lose their cellphone and are separated from technology.

Ann Patchett

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I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

Amanda Seyfried

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A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Miley Cyrus

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I just really like women, and I like men, and I like children, and I like eating, and I like doing everything.

Juergen Teller

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To me, there's a lot more bottom and 'dirt' with vinyl. When I say dirt, it's good dirt. You need that raw sound in the clubs. To me, a CD is too clean.

Little Louie Vega

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I wish there were more humor in my work than I see in it.

Jasper Johns

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