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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The idea of going into the property business and collecting rent four times a year and waiting for five-year rent reviews has limited appeal.
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It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.
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Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.
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America is the civilization of people engaged in transforming themselves. In the past, the stars of the performance were the pioneer and the immigrant. Today, it is youth and the Black.
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Once people feel comfortable with something, they say, 'Let's try it.'
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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.
