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James Gleick Quotes

As the Earth continues to slow, leap seconds will grow more common. Eventually we will need one every year, and then even more. Scientists could have avoided these awkward skips by choosing instead to adjust the duration of the second itself. Who would notice? That is what they did, in fact, until 1955.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Slow Grow Year Earth Will Leap

I love the Midwest. I think about it every day. I wonder if I would rather have a little farm in the Midwest, in Illinois or Wisconsin, or would I rather have like a little getaway up in the mountains of Colorado.

Love Day Mountains Think Farm Up

Reality really is theater. There's no other way to describe it. It's all so nonsensical, ridiculous and chaotic.

Reality Ridiculous Way Other Theater

I look for a man who respects my womanhood and doesn't make me feel like I have to be a stereotype. Like a housewife.

Jessica Williams

Man Me Feel Look Housewife Like

I deliberately never read about films before I see them.

Never See I See Read Deliberately

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.

Maximilien Robespierre

Good People Evil Institution Which

There is a great suspicion of saying that anyone, especially a child, is 'the product of destiny,' or 'formed by fate,' or 'predestined for a certain life.' I am suspicious, too, of efforts to cage children or adults in preconceived ideas of who they are or should be.

Life Children Great I Am Child Fate

I'm just working hard because I know that's the way you can get things done. That's how I've been able to be successful.

You Know Done Way Working Hard Hard

I don't think people realize the extent to which TV networks are hurt when they carry public broadcasting. I think the estimate is that they lose a half-million dollars for a half day's programming.

Day People Think Hurt Lose Realize

I moved in with a roommate who told me, 'Stay with me until you can afford rent. Don't give up.' People who supported me were like, 'If you don't have money for food, I'll cook you dinner. You don't have money for acting class? Let's get together and read lines.'

Food Money Together People Dinner

Japan functions on the basis of everyone sharing certain assumptions, where each person knows his part in a larger whole. The foreigner sits outside and is threatening. If he comes in, that's the most threatening of all.

Assumptions Person Sharing Outside

The notion that war forever separates veterans from the rest of mankind has been long embedded in our collective consciousness.

War Rest Long Veterans Consciousness

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.

Feel Secret Atmosphere Weight Before

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