Jared Diamond Quotes
Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
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I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I want people to follow their dreams, yes... but I'm not interested in telling young black kids how to be rappers... I want to show them that there's so many other paths you can take, besides a rapper or basketball player.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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'Mrs. Doubtfire' is still a fun movie, and it's still fun to watch, but it is hard to watch myself sometimes. I get very critical. And people will say, 'Mara, you were five.' And I'm like, 'Yeah, but I still should have known better!' I'm a lifelong perfectionist, what can I say?
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I like fashion, but I love, love, love music and film; they are my two passions. I would love to pursue my acting and my love of music more than anything.
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A Commander-in-Chief needs to do two things. One - tell us who the enemy is. And two - say we are fighting to win.
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I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.
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I would love to work with Matt Damon.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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Anything that's on television as often as someone on 'The X Factor' is what's successful. That doesn't mean that I condone that or think that it's right. To be honest, I'd be the first to say I think it's a shame. But if that's the way it is then that's the way it is.
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I don't think I ever really knew the right words to 'Hava Nagilah,' which isn't great for a Jewish singer.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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The genealogy of fictional characters can become an obsession, like train-spotting, and should be firmly resisted.
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I think people's interpretation of a body slam is different than the techniques.
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One of my mantras is, 'Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.' I keep that with me in my back pocket. Shoot, I keep it in my front pocket! I keep it in my hair.
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My man, Gerard, prefers meat over bone. That takes the pressure off. I already have a lot to worry about.
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Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
