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When they've shut down, you get more nervous. They react to that, and it's just this hideous shame spiral. Although sometimes that can be some good train-wreck TV. That's another reason it's definitely difficult - when you are just not connecting, and it's there for the world to see.

And when I say [M2 was] lo-fi production, it was so great and grimy. I was used to that world anyway, because we shot in bars, we shot in thrift shops, we shot on the street. And the bars, they would have just opened, and still there was barf on the floor and beer. We certainly kept it real. It was a small crew.

You can't carry the world on yer shoulders, broad as they are.

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Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

There's nothing trite about being consoled in a world that does everything in its power to deliver sorrow.

Dealing with effects, as a job it's great, but with Mythbusters, the stuff we've seen, the stuff we've absorbed over the years, has just been fantastic, and I wouldn't change it for the world.

Finance went from being a small business, effectively, to being a big business. In part, that's the growth of the world's wealth. That's called savings.

We represent companies from around the world who say, "I want to look at Japanese companies. I want to invest in Japan."

Part of [Japanese companies] growing and expanding around the world is ... going to help the Japanese keep their lifestyles [despite Japan's] demographics, as a declining population, and [to] make it more conducive to women to go to work, I think, is a plus.

It's good for America when the rest of the world grows, because you can sell more to the rest of the world.

We take smaller companies and middle-sized companies, all around the world, and we do currency exchange for them; we raise bonds and equities for them; and we do inventory finance, trade finance, and custody of assets.

I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe.

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

If the rest of the world likes Americans only when we're dying, the rest of the world can go to hell.

The Ilan-Lael Foundation is an arts education foundation celebrating nature and the aesthetic of the built environment for its ability to help us see ourselves and our world in new ways.

The autocracies of the Arab world have been as economically destructive as they've been politically repressive.

The U.S. is excellent at importing cheap products from the rest of the world. Let's try importing some human capital instead.

Wall Street has come a long way from the insider-dominated world that was blown apart by the Great Depression.

Flexible supply chains are great for multinationals and consumers. But they erode already thin profit margins in developing-world factories and foster a pell-mell work environment in which getting the order out the door is the only thing that matters.

The sad thing is that often when you expose your secrets and become more honest with yourself, you find the reaction from the outside world is more complicated than the intense guilt you yourself have inflicted.

It's tremendous: this world, this life. Take it while you have it.

The sentimentalist does not think of what he does so much as of what the world will think of what he does.

Every person born into this world their work is born with them.