- 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
- Framing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Eye-popping tales of growing income inequality are hardly new. By now, nearly every American must be painfully aware of the widening pay gap between top executives and shop floor laborers; between 'Master of the Universe' financiers and pretty much everyone else.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
No company has embraced the liberating aspects of the Internet as a 'new marketplace of ideas' more than the search giant Google.
- Economic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fast, cheap, abundant broadband is a fantastic economic accelerator, enabling breakout businesses and kick-starting new industries.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.
- iPhone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Though the first iPhone was expensive, it was such a refreshing new product that early users flocked to it.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inevitably, we will spend a multiple of the amount we used to drop on a new router once the old one petered out. The New Wifi is the $5 latte to the standard cup of coffee.
- Never Forget
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll never forget travelling to New Zealand for three months to make the 'Underworld' films - that was pretty special.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been doing a late-night talk show out here in New Mexico now, 'The After After Party.' We're going to finalize a deal to be in 50 million homes. How blessed can I be, man?
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
My concern for education in New Mexico has always been there. I'm one of those kids that struggled through school, and I feel like I fell through the cracks.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good news about New Mexico is we bring a lot of movies, a lot of television series out here, so I'm hoping I continue to work out here in New Mexico along with being part of my community.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Living in N.Y.C. has truly awakened me to the New York elite and their penchant for the city's self-described brilliant public transit system. I think it sucks... just like public transit always does.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martha Stewart has two houses in East Hampton. She has an old fashioned Victorian house and a very new modern house.
- Landscape
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just as easy to buy a $12,000 watch in East Hampton as it is to pick up a carton of milk, and new homeowners are so impatient that they landscape their front lawns with 'mature gardens' of full-grown trees.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People just don't like me, and it's unfortunate, because I'm trying to get people to come down and visit New Zealand. I'm an ambassador for New Zealand... it's kind of sad.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020