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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
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- Nov 07, 2020
In New York, the former lack of real competition allowed taxis to extract excessive charges, regardless of the poor service.
- Nov 07, 2020
It seems kind of nutty to send up something new when there's something already there that can do the job.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is new is that environmentalism intensely illuminates the need to confront the corporate domain at its most powerful and guarded point - the exclusive right to govern the systems of production.
- Prevention
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- Nov 07, 2020
Seen that way, the wholesale transformation of production technologies that is mandated by pollution prevention creates a new surge of economic development.
- Environmental
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- Nov 07, 2020
The wave of new productive enterprises would provide opportunities to remedy the unjust distribution of environmental hazards among economic classes and racial and ethnic communities.
- Business Model
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- Nov 07, 2020
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a publisher-sponsored book tour, of seeing your hardbacks in bookstores and your paperbacks in supermarkets.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now there is a new group every week; it seems like everybody and anybody can get into the charts.
- Nov 07, 2020
New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Political correctness means nothing to me. Nothing. It's the new Puritanism, darling. Preventing us from expressing ourselves.
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- Nov 07, 2020
It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020