Jared Diamond Quotes
I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't know much about golf growing up.
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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I've always liked street lights, and I've always photographed them. I probably have a collection of two to three thousand photographs of them, just around the city, mainly at night.
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
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When Frank the Pug is singing I Will Survive, the only reason it's funny is that Will is in that shot trying not to get angry. A shot of a dog singing I Will Survive on its own will not get a laugh.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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If you're a psychologist, you can instrumentally change peoples lives for the better. But you can only do that for about 300 people to maybe a thousand people - if you're really prolific and you're working really hard.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
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The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
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For me the rehearsal period is the part I most enjoy. It's the creating of the story.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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Thus, races arose from an original coding which God pulled out as needed for adaptation to the environment.
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I think St. Jude helped me achieve some miracles in my life - that's why I wear the medallion in my left ear and never take it out.
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I have a Bachelor of Arts in English, which means I had a lot of formal training in reading.
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'The Phantom of the Opera' is the biggest thing I've ever done, bigger even than 'Cats' which, in itself, I never thought we'd top.
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I've never thought about it in training, 'If I do this, then maybe I can be on the SPOTY shortlist.'
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In December of 1952, my first wife, Kirby, and I left Vienna to drive through the Russian sector of Austria into Yugoslavia.
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Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.
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The spirit in which you do something is often as important as the act itself.
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I decided that now is the time to start doing the things that really interest me and I find important. It was in the 10 years of the MacArthur grant that I began working on my first book... and I began putting more work into environmental history.
