David Quammen Quotes
The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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None of us suddenly becomes something overnight. The preparations have been in the making for lifetime.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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My mom and my dad were married 56 years, and the fact that I reconciled with my dad I think made their marriage a little bit better as well.
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By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.
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I say I am stronger than fear.
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I love musical theatre because I love doing a live performance eight times a week.
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The best world is one in which all countries cooperate with one another to kind of meet each other's needs and be partners in the process.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
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Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.
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I find Jesse Jackson to be religiously, progressively old fashioned.
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Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
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Livin amuk, never givin a fuck Gimme the keys I'm drunk, and I've never driven a truck.
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Don't knock th' weather. Nine-tenths o' th' people couldn' start a conversation if it didn' change once in a while.
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Yes, I'm an African, born and bred. My forebears arrived in South Africa in 1688. My later forebears fought the first modern anti-colonial war on the continent of Africa, against Great Britain. I'm an African, through and through, and the fact that I'm white does not detract from my total commitment to my country and through my country, to our continent.
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I saw a lot of people taking the wrong routes, coming up as a kid, just doing the wrong things.
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I am willing to believe, but I do not have the gift of faith. I'm skeptical.
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Would make a superb public candidate for public office in the future.
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The ability to "fantasize" is the ability to survive. It's wonderful to speak about this subject because there have been so many wrong-headed people dealing with it.... The so-called realists are trying to drive us insane, and I refuse to be driven insane.... We survive by fantasizing. Take that away from us and the whole damned human race goes down the drain.
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You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God.
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The more cases of Ebola infection we have, the more chances there are for the virus to mutate in a particular way that adapts it well to living in humans, replicating in humans, and perhaps transmitting from human to human.
