James Gleick Quotes

For much of the twentieth century, 1984 was a year that belonged to the future - a strange, gray future at that. Then it slid painlessly into the past, like any other year. Big Brother arrived and settled in, though not at all in the way George Orwell had imagined.

James Gleick

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I like stripper shoes. I like being tall because I'm claustrophobic.

Jessie J

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And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.

Jerry Bruckheimer

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I think the concept of minute restrictions is kind of complicated. I don't think there should ever be minute restrictions. I think it should always be about how my body feels and how it's reacting.

Joel Embiid

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We cherish right and we cherish left, but more important, we cherish when you are able to use the whole mind that you were born with.

Angela Ahrendts

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It's always good to go home. It's strengthening to see your past and know you have someplace to go where you're part of a people.

John Trudell

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Immigration is not going to be a 'side issue' in 2016 - it is the issue.

Tom Tancredo

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Its goodness is a decision for the mouth to make.

Lu Yu

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The De Bernieres were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

Louis de Bernieres

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I've never met a budget that I couldn't coax a few extra dollars from - and I'll bet that you can do the same. For instance, you're probably buying more minutes and more cable channels than you use. Oh, and how many black skinny jeans do I count in your closet? You have enough money, just the wrong priorities.

Jean Chatzky

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There is only one Mariano Rivera. There won't be another person who will come along and do what he did. No one does it like him. It was an honor to catch him and play alongside him for as long as I did. He made my job as a catcher so much easier. Mariano is a special person and obviously a special player.

Jorge Posada

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I may be too craving of that rich gift, the power of sharing other minds. I have drunk deeply, long, and oh! how blissfully at this fountain in a foreign clime. Hearts met hearts, minds joined with minds; and what were the secondary trials of pain to the enfeebled, suffering body when daily was administered the soul's medicine and food!

Dorothea Dix

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When I was at MK Dons, I played all the games in centre midfield, so it's not like it's new to me.

Dele Alli

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