Jared Diamond Quotes
I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.Jared Diamond
Quotes to Explore
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
Ban Ki-moon -
The issues that we face as a country and in South Florida aren't broken down by city line or county line.
Ted Deutch -
I could not write about 'ordinary people' because I am not in the least interested in them.
H. P. Lovecraft -
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Samuel Johnson -
I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
Karin Slaughter -
I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
Jack Nicholson
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Our best thoughts come from others.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
Mae West -
Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
Wayne Rooney -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
The numerous evils to which individual persons are exposed are due to the defects existing in the persons themselves. We complain and seek relief from our own faults; we suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!
Maimonides -
When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!
Barbara Mandrell
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There is no peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent, at least as disruptive, at least as liable to bring disgrace and prison and death in its wake.
Daniel Berrigan -
I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
Yusef Komunyakaa -
I do believe that reading can help you understand what you're writing and see what others are doing. But sometimes the desire for more information can act as an inhibitor.
Manuel Puig -
I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
Jack Nicholson -
If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
Ralph Nader -
Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.
Venus Williams
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Different parents have different standards for their children.
Penelope Spheeris -
We understand that conglomerates have no future.
Joe Kaeser -
When you sell a prospecting concession, you're only selling potential. You pay tolls for the right to invest and look for something.
Beny Steinmetz -
What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only his eyes if he's a painter, or ears if he's a musician, or a lyre at every level of his heart if he's a poet, or even, if he's a boxer, just his muscles? On the contrary, he's at the same time a political being, constantly alive to heart-rending, burning, or happy events in the world.
Pablo Picasso -
No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a book, or watching a movie, or watching a play is that you're watching a dream.
Clark Gregg -
I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn someone away from this information for partisan political reasons.
Jared Diamond