Jared Diamond Quotes
All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
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I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
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We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.
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I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.
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As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.
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As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.
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Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.
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With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.
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Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.
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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.
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It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
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It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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Jazz really does try to include everything. It's always been popular music. But the wonderful thing about jazz is its willingness to take chances.
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I love more than anything looking at a movie scene by scene and seeing the intention behind it.
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One of the best signs of being fitted for power is reluctance to hold it.
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She had a sad face, yet she was evidently efficient. The combination used to make Mrs. Wilkins wonder, for she had been told by Mellersh, on days when she had only been able to get plaice, that if one were efficient one wouldn’t be depressed, and that if one does one’s job well one becomes automatically bright and brisk.
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Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied."
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'Milton was right…' The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery…
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All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.
