- 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
- Past
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- Nov 07, 2020
Instead of using new technologies to preserve for ready discovery material that might in the past never have been stored, or deleting everything as soon as possible, we can develop systems that place sensitive information beyond reach until a specified amount of time has passed or other conditions are met.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
Technologically, the Internet works thanks to loose but trusted connections among its many constituent parts, with easy entry and exit for new ISPs or new forms of expanding access.
- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time we meet a new terrorist group, we argue they are utterly different and we can learn nothing from the last time. Of course they are different, but some lessons on how we deal with them seem to apply in all cases.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
When it comes to terrorism, governments seem to suffer from a collective amnesia. All of our historical experience tells us that there can be no purely military solution to a political problem, and yet every time we confront a new terrorist group, we begin by insisting we will never talk to them.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
9/11 changed America fundamentally, far more so than outsiders realised at the time. For Americans, it genuinely was a new Pearl Harbour: an attack on the homeland that made them feel vulnerable for the first time in 60 years.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a workaholic. I also go to the gym a lot - it's my new thing. Yes, I am a compulsive person.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
Freedom is not won by merely overthrowing a tyrannical ruler or an oppressive regime. That is usually only the prelude to a new tyranny, a new oppression.
- Goals
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- Nov 07, 2020
Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at the start of the new millennium are not being reached. Fine words have not yet been turned into deeds.
- Really
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is there really anyone, besides Rudy Giuliani, who prefers the new Times Square?
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are certain people within the new government who have a slightly disturbing tendency toward authoritarianism, but there are so many checks and balances that in that way their noises are just noises.
- Contributing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see the cartoonist as contributing to the content, being critical, because we do poke holes in some of the dialogue and find new ways of seeing things.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even when the band got back together in 2008, New Kids fans knew I was gay. Everyone did.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The whole New Kids thing was crazy. The more it grew, the more I just felt like I was trapped.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a matter of record, New York City spends a higher portion of its budget on instruction and associated costs within the schools themselves than any of the other 100 largest districts in the nation.
- Excluded
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd excluded New York from my writing, and then I came back and I fell in love with it all over again. The energy comes from an absence, that yearning for New York when you are not there.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to obsess on critical reactions to my films, and it's really not a healthy way to live your life, so my new take on it is simply, 'I hope people like it!' I'm not going to be looking at the tomato meter for at least a year! I was very lucky on '50/50' that most critics really liked it.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020