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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I always knew that I wanted to be an artist.

Maynard James Keenan

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I had this ego that was unstable. If you said anything about me good or bad, it really went to my head.

Metta World Peace

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Absolutely. I think that this is - politics is a tough business. I describe it as a full contact sport. You have to be prepared to get in there and mix it up.

John Thune

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You are a member of the British royal family. We are never tired, and we all love hospitals.

Mary of Teck

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Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Mike Myers

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A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

Michel de Montaigne

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People sometimes call me Wolf.

Luke James

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I was fortunate to live for 3 years in another country, and although we lived in an American compound, still as a young adolescent I did venture into the world of the Japanese with great interest and enjoyment. But many Americans never left that safe and familiar life among their own people.

Lois Lowry

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I enjoy creating goals more than scoring them.

David Silva

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I'm always smiling and happy.

Brandy Norwood

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There've been times where I wondered whether it was worth continuing in my own education.

Peter Orszag

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It shouldn't be a Higgs field. If it's anybody's, it should be Goldstone field, I think. When Nambu wrote his short paper in 1960, Jeffrey Goldstone of Cambridge University, who was visiting Cern, heard about it. He then wrote a paper which was conceptually similar to what Nambu had done, but a simpler model.

Peter Higgs

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