Jared Diamond Quotes
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
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I have nothing but love in my heart and everything I say is just an instrument for laughs.
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Character, I am sure, lies in the genes.
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I've got bowlegs, so if I do a midcalf look, I look bandy.
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It's a different way of getting across an emotion. You're trying to get it across to the animator because the animator is inspired by the voicetrack in terms of how to animate the character.
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I managed to slip two children out in the middle of my career and have been lucky with all the work.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I'll have the chance to do a production number on A Capitol Fourth.
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I am pretty tough as a boss.
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It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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Instead of going out, I'm trying to encourage people to have a memorable experience in their own home. We call it 'Delicioso Night In.' I invite the people I care about the most. Then, when I get a lot of people together, I like to have finger foods.
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It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.
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I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
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We need to quit arguing about whether the glass is half full or half empty - and instead acknowledge that there's not quite enough water to go around.
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When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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The Vatican has to strike a difficult balance between running a country and running a religious institution.
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Every country in Europe needs immigrants for its economic survival.
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There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.
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Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. And four years just isn't long enough to dismantle all the environmental laws we've got in this country.
