"People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not."

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Source : "Ted 2010 | Nicholas Christakis: Does This Social Network Make Me Look Fat?". Interview with Kim Zetter, www.wired.com. February 12, 2010.

Nicholas A. Christakis

#People Quotes #Acquaintance Quotes

“The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.”
“Brother killing brother, father slaying son. From the looks of this old graveyard, hell nobody really won.”
“Whenever you think that you are getting too big for the people around you, remember all that separates you from the guy sitting next to you is a little piece of gristle in your throat.”
“When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not.”
“I don't spend a lot of time here in New York. I didn't realize there were so many Bruins fans in New York.”
“Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either.”
“The welfare state has bred a generation of obnoxious, drug-addled criminals and ne'er-do-wells. It has also, incidentally, burdened what was once the world's biggest, most dynamic economy with the dead weight of an obstructive and vastly expensive state machine.”
“The last time I had this much fun was a root-canal operation.”

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