- Language
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- 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
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
September 2001 turned out to be an unusually bad time to sell stocks: By New Year's Day 2002, little more than three months after the post-9/11 low reached on Sept. 21, the S&P 500 had gained close to 20 percent.
- Farmland
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I bought a guitar CD-ROM because we had a new computer, but I had no attention span for that. I spent about three hours on it desperate to be brilliant. Eventually, I got some proper lessons.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
All I ever promised was that I was sure I could develop a new pharmacological agent which might answer a physiological question. Any utility would be implicit in that answer.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Half-jokingly, I asked what was wrong with me. So we made a deal: I would run his biological research provided I had a free hand to run my new project.
- Chemistry
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did help to set up an undergraduate course in medicinal chemistry and made progress in modelling and analysing pharmacological activity at the tissue level, my new passion.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had found myself a new mission - and once more my recurring dilemma between corporate commercial needs and personal scientific ambitions was solved unexpectedly.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to spend less time with the phone when the kids are awake in general. I need to get better about that. It's a perennial New Year's resolution.
- Devastation
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fragile economies and weak infrastructures tend to worsen the results of climate disruptions, a problem exemplified by Bangladesh's vulnerability to monsoons, accelerating desertification in northern China, and, most visibly, Hurricane Katrina's devastation in New Orleans.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s, in the early days of the World Wide Web, there were technologists and writers arguing forcefully that the Internet was destined to become the most important tool for cultural change in human history.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020