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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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 NBC using us on air is a great endorsement of quality.
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When you set out on your journey to Ithaca, pray that the road is long, full of adventure, full of knowledge.
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As children, we have vivid imaginations. We stay up late waiting for Santa Claus, dream of becoming president, and have ideas that defy physics. Then something happens. As we grow older, we start editing our imagination.
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I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
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Sometimes it's good to just sing and let the words come out. Whatever comes out is valid because it's what you were thinking.
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Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?
