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The Innovator, the Imitator, the Idiot

I liked this quotation, and wanted to save it for Googlesterity "Buffett once told me there are three 'I's in every cycle. The 'innovator,' that's the first 'I.' After the innovator comes the...

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Ted Turner and the Communists

"My father said, 'Son, when the communists take over, they're going to shoot everyone with more than 50 dollars.' And for 30 years I never carried more than 49 dollars."

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The Law of Large Numbers

"The Law of Large Numbers shows that an event with a low probability of occurrence in a small number of trials has a high probability of occurrence in a large number of trials...Events with a...

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Try This at Work This Week

"Pete, the personal rancor reflected in that remark I don't intend to dignify with comment. But I would like to address your general attitude of hopeless negativism. Consider the lilies of the goddamn...

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Demetri Martin Quotes

To brighten your day. ###Possibly related posts: Demetri Martin Better Than Dane Cook "ONLY people in glass houses should throw stones." I was... Dane Cook Steals Joke…From Demetri Martin? We've been...

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Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 3

Anytime Tracy Morgan as Tracy Jordan has a scene on 30 Rock, my brain shuts off and it's difficult to function. It's the combination of delivery and content, and there's hardly ever a scene throughout...

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Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 1

A couple months ago, I posted Everything Tracy Jordan Said in Season 3 of 30 Rock. I said if you guys wanted it, I'd go back and do Season 1 and Season 2. Well, you wanted it, so here's Season 1 and...

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Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 2

Last week was Season 1 and a couple months ago was Season 3. And now, I give you, Everything Tracy Jordan Said in season 2 of 30 Rock. These are submitted without context, which some people seem to...

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Everything Don Draper Said Season 1

Following up on Everything Tracy Jordan Said Seasons 1, 2, and 3, I figured I'd celebrate one of my other favorite shows by giving you Everything Don Draper Said Season 1 (Season 2 coming next week)....

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Everything Don Draper Said Season 2

As mentioned last week, Everything Don Draper Said (Season 1) follows up on Everything Tracy Jordan Said Seasons 1, 2, and 3. This season is only around 7500 words (as opposed to Season 1's 10K words),...

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McLean Stabbed Mingus

Every single time, and I mean EVERY SINGLE TIME I see a reference to the blog called "If Charlie Parker Was a Gunslinger, There'd Be a Whole Lot of Dead Copycats" it reminds me of a story my friend Ben...

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Everything Don Draper Said Season 3

Here's Season 3 of Everything Don Draper Said (and Season 1 and Season 2 (PLUS Everything Tracy Jordan Said Seasons 1, 2, and 3)). There were a few episodes this season where Don's story wasn't...

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100 Movie Quotes Video

I can't shake the feeling that I've seen this before, but I do feel reasonably certain that I haven't posted it yet. Via Holy Kaw! ###Possibly related posts: Top 100 The Wire Quotes Video This video of...

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Top 100 The Wire Quotes Video

This video of the top 100 lines from The Wire is a fun trip down memory lane. I think I'm going to have to go watch all 5 seasons again. This is documentation I can get behind, but for such a...

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Everything Hurley Said Season 5

Subscribe by RSS, or follow on Twitter, or subscribe by email or on Facebook Here's Everything Hurley Said from Season 5 of Lost. Originally, Hurley's character seemed to be only for comic relief, but...

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Everything Sawyer Said Season 5

Subscribe by RSS, or follow on Twitter, or subscribe by email or on Facebook Here's Everything Sawyer Said from Season 5 of Lost. When I started watching this season again, I was surprised by how big...

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Everything Tracy Jordan Said Season 4

Subscribe by RSS, or on Twitter, or by email or on Facebook or on Tumblr Last year, I put together a transcript of Everything Tracy Jordan Said in Season 3 of 30 Rock. You guys liked it and I...

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Esquire’s 70 greatest sentences

I love lists like this. An interesting piece of internet history: This piece is from 2003, which is why it was posted all on one page. If it was posted yesterday, it'd be on 70 different slides to...

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Martin Lomasney’s first rule of politics

"Never write if you can speak; never speak if you can nod; never nod if you can wink." Via Poynter ###Possibly related posts: MC Hammer and gangster politics Saw this analogy about John Huntsman and...

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“Market research is what you do when your product isn’t any good.”

This piece about Steve Jobs' admiration for Edwin Lands, the founder of Polaroid, had a bunch of interesting bits to pull out. At Polaroid, Land used to hire Smith College’s smartest art-history...

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