Jared Diamond Quotes
My hope in writing this book has been that enough people will choose to profit from that opportunity to make a difference.
Quotes to Explore
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The best relationship is one that does not foster too much independence nor too much dependence, but exists in the healthy interdependence zone.
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Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I think I would like to have lived in the 1930s and worn beautiful bias cut dresses all the time.
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There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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It was a very stupid thing to do, I'll admit, but I hardly didn't even know I was doing it.
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Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.
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When I was 23, I founded an organization called Dress for Success, which is now in more than 100 cities in 8 countries and has helped a million women transition from welfare to work.
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The entertainment business hasn't had a new idea in years.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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No movement finding itself in this stage of struggle can operate by getting authority from the leading body of the political organs for even minor action that is taken and we don't even know in the case of the actions which have publicize whether they are in fact our people.
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
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One of the greatest benefits to come out of 'Lean In' was convincing women to help and support other women - not out of this sense of duty and that you'd be condemned to hell forever if you didn't, but because it will make all your lives better.
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A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
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I want to inspire other young women of color and empower them. I want them to know that they can do and be anything they dream of.
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My hope in writing this book has been that enough people will choose to profit from that opportunity to make a difference.
