- Nov 07, 2020
New Quotes
On fresh starts, new cities and beginning again.
Many of the quotes here trace what's new: a new city, a new circle of people, a new chapter after school. Several reflect specifically on relocating and adjusting to a very different pace of life. For more on that theme, see our City quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
A highway sign used to welcome people to New Haven, birthplace of President George W. Bush. But it was vandalized so much, it was finally taken down for good.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite store? Seize Sur Vingt in New York. They make most of my suits, and they are really cool people.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Destiny's Child has never broken up officially. So don't be surprised one day if there's a new record or a tour because the group never officially broke up.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Look around on your next plane trip. The iPad is the new pacifier for babies and toddlers. Younger school-aged children read stories on smartphones; older boys don't read at all, but hunch over video games. Parents and other passengers read on Kindles or skim a flotilla of email and news feeds.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.
- Quality
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- Nov 07, 2020
The quality of our reading is not only an index of the quality of our thought; it is our best-known route to developing whole new pathways in the cerebral evolution of our species.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same plasticity that allows us to form a reading circuit to begin with, and short-circuit the development of deep reading if we allow it, also allows us to learn how to duplicate deep reading in a new environment. We cannot go backwards. As children move more toward an immersion in digital media, we have to figure out ways to read deeply there.
- Gaming
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before there was even an official naming of the 3DS, or before it was even decided that there would be 3-D capabilities, Mr. Iwata had brought up the topic of a new portable gaming system, and with that, the request to create a new title for that system... The topic of Kid Icarus came up.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a student, I had a hobby of inventing new ideas for products. For me, thinking of new businesses is like inventing new products.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
If Japanese cannot have new babies quick enough, then the government should start importing workers faster.
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- Nov 07, 2020