James Gleick Quotes

Humorists are using Twitter to tell jokes in an interesting way. It doesn't have to be profound, and it doesn't have to be earth-shaking, but it is transformative.

James Gleick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 1, 1954

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I didn't know what kind of jobs, because how was I prepared? At best, I would be an AB in English.

John C. Hawkes

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I'd been writing fiction for 50 years, since I was 19. And when you write fiction, it becomes a way of thinking: there's always a novel around. The strange thing was that after 'Remember Me,' there wasn't.

Melvyn Bragg

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The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government.

Rose Wilder Lane

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Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

Mary McCarthy

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The ballet world I don't think is an art form that is quick to change or to adjust or evolve.

Misty Copeland

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We play some of my stuff and we play some Beatle covers.

Lou Gramm

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I remember having lunch with a friend who worked at the White House. I'd just graduated from law school but kept telling my friend what they needed to do and weren't doing right about the Iran-Contra affair. The next day, I got a call from the White House, offering me a job.

Judy Smith

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Every time we give a musician the advice to give away the music and sell the T-shirt, we're saying, 'Don't make your living in this more elevated way. Instead, reverse this social progress, and choose a more physical way to make a living.' We're sending them to peasanthood, very much like the Maoists have.

Jaron Lanier

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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know who has ever taken a risk and lost a job has ended up getting a better one two years later.

Jonathan Kozol

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I am no mother, and I won't be one.

Brigitte Bardot

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I went to Catholic school, and there was this teacher, a Brother, who saw I could go either way, good or bad. He took an interest in me and got me to do a play. I got hooked on acting, and it gave me something constructive to do. I had a lot of energy.

William Forsythe

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I'm one of those that believes you can't be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

Phil McGraw

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