David Quammen Quotes
One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.'
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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There should be a policy to have a mechanism in place to decide when and how to import or export.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I don't think there will ever be a time I don't write, and I hope there will never be a time I don't act.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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If I were to meet the most incredible man, and he just so happened to not make as much money as I do, I wouldn't hold it against him.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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My favorite body part? My feet. They're not pretty, but they get me where I want to go.
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Everything is a narrative in life. I learned that early on as a reporter at the 'Washington Post.'
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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Whatever a person's politics, lawyers have to understand that we are, for most people, the gateway for them to have access to the third branch of government.
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Nature hates calculators.
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I think plays have nothing to do with one's own personal life. Not in my experience, anyway. The stuff of drama has to do, not with your subject matter, anyway, but with how you treat it. Drama includes pain, loss, regret - that's what drama is about!
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What I did, anybody can do.
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Your face tells a story and it shouldn't be a story about your drive to the doctor's office.
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I just did a picture book called The Wildest Brother on Earth, and you will find both of my children in there.
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One of the things that's particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who's been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus.
