Charles C. Mann Quotes

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Charles C. Mann

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GreatRulesComplexJapaneseSystems

We have learned in recent years to translate almost all of political life in terms of conspiracy. And the spy novel, as never before, really, has come into its own.

John le Carre

LifePoliticalNeverYearsSpyOwn

I get most of my news from the Jon Stewart Daily Show. It's the most level commentary you can find. You have to laugh, because it's all so true. It's the closest thing to a counterculture.

John Mayall

DailyLaughYouFindNewsTrue

I take very seriously that challenge of trying to do genre films - but elevated genre films.

John Hillcoat

ChallengeTryingSeriouslyTakeVery

In an increasingly polarized world, it's hard to know whom to trust. CNN will be the only news channel that doesn't take a side.

Jeff Zucker

TrustWorldNewsKnowWillHard

I'd go for parts that didn't pay a dime, and there would be 300 to 400 actors there. It could be very discouraging. To make it in this business, you have to have a kind of dumb sense that you're really good. You have to believe that someone is going to recognize that.

Michael Imperioli

GoodBusinessBelieveSomeoneYou

I know how to make sausage, and now that I've seen how laws are made, I'll stick with sausage.

Tom Colicchio

KnowNowSeenStickLawsSausage

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen.

Michael Servetus

TruthOthersSeenErrorAgreeMust

Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.

Jules Verne

GreatIndiaLandMilesSpreadKnows

Once I stop being a citizen of the U.S.S.R., I will not stop being a Russian poet.

Joseph Brodsky

StopCitizenWillPoetBeingOnce

Google is in an amazing position to be the target of tons of lawsuits that will set precedent for many important things for us on the Internet.

Joichi Ito

AmazingInternetTargetImportantUs

I think action movies bring more excitement than tears, but I always want to take it to another level. I mean, I think if one appreciates anything in life to a certain degree, it could possibly bring tears to your eyes.

Donnie Yen

LifeEyesTearsActionThinkMovies

I actually became a lawyer because I thought you had to be a lawyer in order to get into national politics.

Susana Martinez

PoliticsLawyerThoughtYouOrder

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