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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I was ordained one of the standing High Council in Zion, under the hands of President Joseph Smith.
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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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People don't want other people to get high, because if you get high, you might see the falsity of the fabric of the society we live in.
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The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.
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My greatest moment as a jock occurred when I was 14 and playing punch ball in front of my house on Albemarle Road near East 17th Street in Brooklyn. I ran back, back for a ball, and it fell in my hands. I didn't even see it. Everyone congratulated me on the catch, and I never told them how it really happened.
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The best way of learning to be an independent sovereign state is to be an independent sovereign state.
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I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.
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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.
