James Surowiecki Quotes

Art collecting has traditionally been the domain of wealthy individuals in search of rewards beyond the purely financial.

James Surowiecki

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'Untitled' is a time machine that can transport you to 1992, an edgy moment when the art world was crumbling, money was scarce, and artists like Tiravanija were in the nascent stages of combining Happenings, performance art, John Cage, Joseph Beuys, and the do-it-yourself ethos of punk. Meanwhile, a new art world was coming into being.

Jerry Saltz

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High school isn't necessarily the best time of your life.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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At one time, you could sit on the Rue de la Paix in Paris or at the Habima Theater in Tel Aviv or in Medina and you could see a person come in, black, white, it didn't matter. You said, 'That's an American' because there's a readiness to smile and to talk to people.

Maya Angelou

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The thing I gravitated to was being the class clown. It was very competitive.

John Leguizamo

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All I'm saying is that I rarely find myself pointing to Sean Penn's love life thinking, 'I want to be like that.'

Steven Crowder

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My task as a citizen is to get the government to do more good and less inefficient and wasteful work.

Tony Campolo

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That young man that I was in 1988 - I was insecure. Besides making good music, I wanted to be cool; I wanted to be accepted and stuff.

Rodney Crowell

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Musicians understand each other through means other that speaking.

Ry Cooder

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There are too many retailers. There are too many brands. There are too many designers. There are too many discount stores, and the predator online companies are selling discount like crazy.

Mickey Drexler

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When I came to M.I.T. in 1960, only 4 percent of the students were female. Today, it's about 40 percent of undergraduates. At Lincoln Lab, they had 1,000 men and two women. But we had a very good boss, and he treated us just like everybody else.

Mildred Dresselhaus

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I believe without a single shadow of a doubt that it is necessary for young people to learn to make choices. Learning to make right choices is the only way they will survive in an increasingly frightening world.

Lois Lowry

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A film is a petrified fountain of thought.

Jean Cocteau

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