Jared Diamond Quotes
I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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Jagdish Singh was my basic coach, and he trained me from my very early days in boxing, teaching me the fundamentals of the sport. He was the one who shaped me into a boxer, disciplined me when I required disciplining.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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To survive is to win.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I used to love Kapil Dev and, like any schoolboy, wanted to become a cricketer till I started dreaming of making movies.
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My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.
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My fears about where theater is going - it's the Hollywood model, where people are chasing the almighty dollar and making commercial decisions based on nothing more than generating income for themselves and their theaters.
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I like adventures and people who live with the volume on high.
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My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.
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Good things happen to those who hustle.
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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
