Jared Diamond Quotes
History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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There should be more interaction and more confidence building between our various academic institutions just like how there needs to be a confidence building between industry and academics.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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I had a lot of time to think, and that is not good for your mind. And when it actually happened, it was not so much a celebration but the relief. It was an exorcism anxiety. After each race there is a procedure in which you get taken off to the podium and the TV interviews.
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
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I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I was terrible when I first started skating and was clinging onto the side for dear life, but it's something I'll always have now, and the tour is always so much fun.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I thought I would be laying hardwood floors in Colorado - a construction worker. Middle class or working class, that's where I was! I just fought because I loved it. It was so fun! Being able to go in there and outthink your opponents.
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I don't talk to media or anyone before games. I just put my headphones on, turn up some hip-hop, and get in the zone.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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By and large, the answer to the question 'How do large institutions survive?' is 'They don't!' The vast majority of large modern-day institutions - some of them extremely vital to the functioning of our complex civilization - simply fail to exist in the first place.
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History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
