James Surowiecki Quotes

Usually, jet lag is not this big of an issue for me. I'm not sure why I'm so disoriented this time. It could be due to the amount of chocolate and french fries I've eaten in the last two and a half weeks.

When you're going bad, sometimes you need to relax more. I've always been intense. I didn't need to be more intense.

As you know, in the past several years, month after month, radio has increased its revenues - some of it even coming from Dot-Com advertisers. So, radio is a survivor.

All these years, I found that being a good wife for Jeb is my most important role, no doubt.

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

After spending three years of my life looking into this, I am more convinced than ever that the U.S. government's responsibility for the drug problems in South Central Los Angeles and other inner cities is greater than I ever wrote in the newspaper.

She divorced me August 10 of 2000, but she never was able to completely get rid of me. Don't ask me why.

For me, the past is dead. Can't go back.

I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past.

Prior to my father's death, I was having a hard time committing to a career as an artist, but that's not because of who he was - it was because of who I am. It's true, though, that I felt I shouldn't compete with him, and that those feelings went away after he died.

There are lasting consequences for using drugs. I'll still be paying for my prior use.

People talk about writing convincing teenagers like it's a really clever thing to do, but it comes incredibly naturally to me. Which, of course, is slightly a worry.

I've always felt that, when I looked at my tombstone, it shouldn't say, 'Mehmet Oz banged out 10,000 open-heart operations.' I've probably done 5,000. Am I any better at it than 10,000? He shook his head. It's just a different number on the tombstone.

I got a BFA in Fine Art, and then I told my family I was going to be an actress.

It just blows me away that I am on, I don't know what generation of fans.

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

Just because I was out at the bars all the time didn't mean I wasn't looking for someone to love.

The genius of the Spanish people is exquisitely subtle, without being at all acute; hence there is so much humour and so little wit in their literature.