Jared Diamond Quotes
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I have a physical background. It's not like I'm a kung fu master, but my real training was dance school, and through that, I move to this thing called Capruera that I used in 'Ocean's 12.' I can pretend that I can do a lot of things, but then, I don't really master anything.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
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I think if a horror movie is really scary, you'll think about it for weeks, and there's something kind of fun about that - about our art, really.
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I hate running. I know I'm curvier - I know I'm small, but I'm not ripped. But I make a choice to be that way. I realize my arms aren't as toned as Halle Berry's but I don't want them to be.
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We recognized in 1996 that, with progress in the field of genetics accelerating at a breathtaking pace, we need to ensure that advances in treatment and prevention of disease do not constitute a new basis for discrimination.
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In the end, I think that people that are not willing to take the risk to fail are not true entrepreneurs.
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I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.
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You don't go out and play Beethoven's 'Opus 111' without having rethought about it every time you play.
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Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.
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The professed function of the nuclear weapons on each side is to prevent the other side from using their nuclear weapons. If that's all it is, then we've gotta as: how many nuclear weapons do you need to do that?
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It doesn't get any more underground, conscious or indie than Macklemore, Ryan Lewis, but because they got a couple of really big pop hits, actually some of the biggest pop hits that hip-hop has ever seen, people are missing that part of their story. People are not counting that blessing.
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Your life continues in those who continue the revolution.
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We have to keep in mind that it's not just about the numbers of people who died; it's also the manner which many of these victims met their deaths.
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Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
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I can't imagine anyone who doesn't think the world is safer without a tyrant who murdered his own people, used weapons of mass destruction against them and flouted the world for so many years.
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Moscow is a huge inspiration for me. I love what I find here, I love being here.
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Democracy without morality is impossible.
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I didn't follow anybody's advice, really.
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It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.
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I think we can allow the therapeutic uses of nuclear transplant technology, which we call cloning, without running the danger of actually having live human beings born.
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I think the biggest problem in clinical trials is that they are underpowered. And that fundamentally, the studies are just too small.
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I've always been able to survive by writing, though.
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I personally am not conscious of my accent.
