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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My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey.
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Kudos to people who put themselves forward as the arbiters of taste.
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Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.
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One of my pet peeves is that sometimes the talents of my band get overlooked because, and it was the same problem that Frank Zappa had, with a lot of groups that use humor, people don't realize there's a lot of craft behind the comedy.
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It takes a while to establish a character. Richard Boone once told me he didn't really get the character in 'Have Gun - Will Travel' until the 16th show. You just plant a seed, water it, let the sun shine on it, and hope it blooms.
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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.
