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.Jared Diamond
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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.
Sam Heughan -
What Washington needs is adult supervision.
Barack Obama -
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.
Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet -
The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
Gavin Rossdale Bush -
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.
Dale Carnegie -
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.
Damon Hill
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Everything is about class in England, whether it's upper, lower or middle. Why should that be?
Francesca Annis -
Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
A. R. Ammons -
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
I wasn't really excited about doing television, to be quite honest.
Ramon Rodriguez -
Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
Dana Rohrabacher -
Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
Damon Galgut
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
K. D. Lang -
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.
Gareth Gates -
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.
Zooey Deschanel -
It takes one person to give you a big chance.
Patricia Velasquez -
Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
Kaley Cuoco
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There's no substitute for guts.
Paul Bryant -
No one can make the most of himself until he looks upon his life as a magnificent possibility, the materials for a great masterpiece, to mar or spoil which would be a great tragedy.
Orison Swett Marden -
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
Orson Welles -
I love revenge.
Laura Schlessinger -
Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary.
Alan Hansen -
History, as well as life itself, is complicated; neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.
Jared Diamond