- People
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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
- Nov 07, 2020
Generally what I produce is new. Of course, they are often variations on the same subject.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have 40 years of unpublished material, the ones they don't pick, and the reason I don't redraw them or use them again is that I like to use my brain every day and come up with new jokes.
- Hard
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- Nov 07, 2020
We don't really believe there's much room for the creation of new currencies if there is no real backing for a hard and credible issuer of that currency.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Parisians overwhelmingly buy small cars. And it's not because people are petite, but because fuel is drop-dead expensive. Gasoline costs more than twice as much in Paris as in New York.
- Military
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are categorically against any new military nuclear power, be it Iran, be it North Korea, be it anyone.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the development of antibiotics, the soil microbiological population has contributed more than its share. It is to the soil that the microbiologists came in search of new antibacterial agents.
- Police
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't be in denial. Police misconduct is nothing new, but the technology we have to capture it is. Nearly everyone is now equipped with a smartphone with a camera, so these incidents are more readily caught on film.
- College Professor
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even as a college professor at Carnegie Mellon and Stanford, I saw myself as an entrepreneur, and I went out, took risks, and tried to invent new things, such as participating in the DARPA Grand Challenge and working on self-driving cars.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Honestly, six months before getting 'Orange Is the New Black,' I remember telling my manager I was done.
- Seriously
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- Nov 07, 2020
Would you take anybody's views on Christianity seriously if they hadn't read the New Testament? Of course you wouldn't. So I read the Koran.
- Devise
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- Nov 07, 2020
If we can map the retina, that will help us understand how it functions in vision, as well as devise new ways of repairing its malfunctions. And if we can really figure out the retina, perhaps we will have a shot at figuring out the vastly more complicated brain.
- I Was Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was born in Romania and later lived in Vienna, Austria, for a few years, and I eventually made my way over to New York in '95.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was getting ready for the release of 'Deadline,' when it was coming out soon, I decided that the appropriate way to get people excited about the book would be to write a novella in 30 pieces and publish a piece on my blog every day for a month... during a convention, a week-and-a-half-long trip to New York, and a doll traders' expo.
- Doctor
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- Nov 07, 2020