"A tourist can't help but have a distorted……" — Michael Lewis
"A tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there."
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64 Quotes by Michael Lewis
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Thirdly-but not lastly-there was the bias toward what people saw with their own eyes, or thought they had seen. The…
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Some coaches believed they could judge a player's performance simply by watching it. In this they were deeply mistaken. The…
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In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children…
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When you're trying to create a career as a writer, a little delusional thinking goes a long way.
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He's a machine for competitive balance, ... Yes, the money is in New York. Yes, the money is in his…
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My client loved risk. Risk, I had learned, was a commodity in itself. Risk could be canned and sold like…
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It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar…
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One absolutely cannot tell, by watching, the difference between a .300 hitter and a .275 hitter. The difference is one…
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Above all, recognize that if you have had success, you have also had luck — and with luck comes obligation.…
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Baseball is this intense subculture that actually doesn't speak very much for the larger culture.
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Book tours are almost designed to beat out of an author any affection he has for his book.
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I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national…
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More Distorted Quotes
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It's essential to tell the truth at all times. This will reduce life's pain. Lying distorts reality. All forms of…
— John Bradshaw
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Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted.
— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want…
— Tracy Chapman
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I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early…
— John Henrik Clarke
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There hasn't been anybody whose life has been picked apart and distorted as much as mine.
— Hillary Clinton
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Our attitude determines how we evaluate our life's experiences. They determine how we evaluate ourselves. They also govern how we…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Most of us think we don't have enough time to exercise. What a distorted paradigm! We don't have time not…
— Stephen Covey
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If his spirit is distorted he should simply fix it-purge it, make it perfect-because there is no other task in…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Politicians, real-estate agents, used-car salesmen, and advertising copy-writers are expected to stretch facts in self-serving directions, but scientists who falsify…
— Martin Gardner
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I experimented with all possible maneuvers-loops, somersaults and barrel rolls. I stood upside down on one finger and burst out…
— Jacques Yves Cousteau
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast,…
— Samuel Johnson
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