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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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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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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I have quite a collection of ironic band T shirts.
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All the members of the dog family - domestic dogs, wolves, coyotes, dingoes - are very aware of territory. A group must control its own territory - you can't have others taking it from you, because then you won't have enough food.
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You search for images and stories and movies and music from people that look like you and sound like you and speak like you because you want to feel like, 'Oh, if they can do it, so can I.' There's a little bit of that need for validation, especially when you're younger and trying to look to someone to look up to.
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Are you copying others? People won't pay extra for that. You won't be followed for that.
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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.
