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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There's no way to know the motives of another person totally, even a person that you know very well.
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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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This man, though, was of that rare type that knew what he wanted but didn't want anything badly enough to demand it or beg for it or hurt anyone else in the process of getting it.
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The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.
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“Good work instead of long prayers.”
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I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.
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It is not the gardener that makes the garden. It is the garden that makes the gardener.
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I'd rather spend my leisure time doing what some people call my work and I call my fun.
