James Gleick Quotes

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James Gleick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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The Tea Party doesn't like politicians.

Jim DeMint

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First of all, I was a wrestling fan when I was young. Even when I figured out what wrestling was, I was still a fan.

John Carpenter

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I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

John Ensign

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Boxing is not that complicated. If two guys want to fight, it's not hard to make a fight. If the fight's not made, it's because one party doesn't want that fight, or maybe both parties don't want it.

Andre Ward

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When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

Jeffrey Archer

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I won Miss Teen World, and then a movie rep saw me on the pageant website and thought that I had the perfect image for the role in 'Madrasapattinam.'

Amy Jackson

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You can't, or you shouldn't, be nominated for an Oscar unless you've turned in a performance that's special.

Rita Moreno

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The American public historically was really not part of the stock market.

Ron Chernow

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Country fans are the most loyal in the world.

Ronnie Dunn

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A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

Mike Pence

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What we have to do is we have to make sure that our country is as strong as it can be economically and from a defense standpoint.

Michael T. Flynn

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I want to be someone for young girls to look up to, for fathers to want their daughters to listen to me because I'm not rude, and I'm actually talking some sense.

Jorja Smith

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