Nicholas A. Christakis Quotes

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Nicholas A. Christakis

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PeopleFriendsFacebookCallJust

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Jesse Ventura

LifeHappinessConstitutionCharity

In the wine world, crusaders would have wine consumers believe that the only wines of merit are something completely indefinable but which they call 'authentic' or 'natural.'

Robert M. Parker, Jr.

WorldBelieveWineNaturalSomething

I'm drawn to writers with skill sets I don't have.

Stephen Karam

SkillDrawnSetsWriters

Radio is being dominated by records that are 120 beats per minute. R&B is about groove and soul.

Trey Songz

SoulRadioBeingMinuteRecordsPer

My mother and my father went to the cinema for the first time when I made my first movie in 1978.

Roberto Benigni

FatherMotherTimeCinemaFirst Time

The filmmakers have a story they want to tell, and they go get the material they need for it. The film either exceeds or fails to meet up to their expectations or it's different.

Joshua Oppenheimer

ExpectationsStoryGoWantMeetUp

Can't make your payments? No problem. The interest charges keep on coming. In fact, banks prefer it that way. More money for them. The government guarantees it.

Jonathan Raymond

MoneyGovernmentProblemWayMore

Who needs a bullet piercing, armor piercing bullet to go hunting? Who needs an assault rifle to go hunting? You can't even use the prey that you kill with an assault rifle if you indeed do it.

Don Lemon

YouGoHuntingPreyBulletEven

I was the first movie star to plunge into night-time soap opera.

Dorothy Malone

FirstOperaStarPlungeSoapMovie

Even though brands are created by people, they belong to the corporations.

Debbie Millman

PeopleBelongEvenCorporations

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

Christoph Martin Wieland

ManGiftRealityWhateverOnly

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks.

Conway Twitty

LifeLearnYouHardestMostKnocks

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