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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One of the things I love about 'Idol' besides the drama, the backstories, and the crazy arrangements on popular songs is the auditions, when everyone is full of hope and nerves.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.
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Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself
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Carl Armstrong was one of those people in the anti-war years who had been so convinced of the righteousness of their cause that he and some friends decided they would blow up a building at the University of Wisconsin, in which they said research was being done to help the war against the Vietnamese. What they blew up at three or four in the morning was a young scientist, who was married and had a couple of kids, who wasn't working on war stuff at all. And he was killed.
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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.
