Jared Diamond Quotes
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
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Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected from it completely. I didn't want to be a Clark Kent/Superman: I couldn't really say, 'Well, B.o.B's the old me, and Bobby Ray's the new me.' I had to just make a point.
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He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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I really don't like going out anymore. I used to love it, but now it's not fun. I'd rather have friends come over and hot have to worry about crazy people taking pictures.
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You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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Every game has to teach you how to walk, run, talk, use.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
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In my experience with print journalists, the distinction between remarks being uttered on- or off-the-record is held sacrosanct, but the distinction between truth and falsity sometimes isn't.
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I'm a sponge when it comes to stories. I'd say everything influences me in some way, but for 'Red Queen' in particular, I was really affected by the 'A Song of Ice and Fire' series by George R. R. Martin.
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Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.
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Many will view the compromises that will be made during your negotiations as painful concessions. But why not view them as peace offerings, ones that will provide in return the priceless gifts of hope, security and freedom for our children and our children's?
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Being an ex-child star is not a given.
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Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;Behind the clouds the sun is shining;Thy fate is the common fate of all,Into each life some rain must fall,Some days must be dark and dreary.
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'Another world is not only possible, she's on the way and, on a quiet day, if you listen very carefully you can hear her breathe.'
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The average member of the public thinks of 'business' as an impersonal corporate entity owned by the very rich and managed by overpaid executives. There is an almost total failure to appreciate that 'business' actually embraces - in one way or another - most Americans.
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When I was seven or eight I was really into Cream, really into Led Zeppelin.
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Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, as of tomorrow, technology won't create problems. Technology simply means increased power, which is why we have the global problems we face today.
