David Quammen Quotes
Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Produce great men, the rest follows.
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Don't try to guess what it is people want and give it to them. Don't ask for a show of hands. Try your best to write what you like, what you think your friends would like and what you think your father would like and then cross your fingers... The most valuable thing you have is your own voice.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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In our house, everyone's opinion is welcome. I grew up in a house where everything wasn't when it came to politics or religion.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.
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There were so many pretty girls coming into the salon as clients, and others working in the salon. And I thought, 'Hmm. This is rather nice.'
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Dread lord and cousin, may the almighty preserve your reverence and lordship in long life and good fortune.
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The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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OK, I've been very wild, but I've never really been the sort of person who goes that crazy!
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In Washington, D.C., in 2006, Democrats had long since given up on the war in Iraq in terms of any tangible political support for it. The new factor was the Republicans were beginning to give up as well, and they were truly challenging the strategy and the lack of success.
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I play sad bastard music. For the money.
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Um... Bulgaria is an interesting country. The people are lovely. There are potholes the size of small planets.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raroCorrispondenti fai nostri desiri?Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caroIl discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?
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I don't usually have those 'twin experiences' that people talk about.
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Ebola isn't a respiratory virus. It doesn't spread through the airborne route. So it's not likely to spread like wildfire around the world and kill tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of people. That's what I think of as the next big one.
