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...terrible thing about people like you," she tells Sidney, "is that decent people have to become like you in order to stop you - in order to survive." In other words, to stay pure they must do corrupt things. Of course, Susie could be lying; it's a family trait...
...room will get a gleam in their eyes--a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it--except maybe...
...room will get a gleam in their eyes - a little ignition of trench-coat wanderlust, their minds flickering in black and white for a moment, a few frames of '30s movies. Daniel Pearl, I gather, had the gleam. A sheer avidity to know things is the most endearing trait of any journalist. Long ago, the novelist and journalist John Hersey wrote in a sketch of Henry Luce, "He was amazed and delighted to learn whatever he had not known before." Curiosity is the noblest form of intellectual energy; in any case, your mind goes nowhere without it - except maybe...
...That benevolence, it's worth mentioning, has come not just from Olympic employees but from the general public - a trait, those with previous SLC experience assure me, in evidence at all times in this sunny city. Walking downtown, volunteers and locals alike smile, wave and shout greetings at us as if we'd done something truly remarkable...
There comes a time in every important Jobs project, usually when the thing appears to be finished, that he sends it back to the drawing board and asks that it be completely redone. Some people say this trait is pathological, a sign of his control-freak perfectionism or his inability to let go. "It's happened on every Pixar movie," Jobs confesses. It's also what he did when Ive presented him with a plastic model of what was to be the new iMac. It looked like the old iMac on a no-carb diet, a leaner iMac...