Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
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Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'
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I prefer home-schooling because you can work at your own pace and go towards more what you're interested in, whether it be history or geography or math.
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I'm not a publicity hound, I hope.
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I don't leave London, really, and I don't do theatre, because I want to put the kids to bed.
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True patriotism is better than the wrong kind of piety.
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Had Kala lived, Tarzan would have sacrificed all else to remain near her, but now that she was dead, and the playful friends of his childhood grown into fierce and surly brutes he felt that he much preferred the peace and solitude of his cabin to the irksome duties of leadership amongst a horde of wild beasts.
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Truth, beaten down, may well rise again. But there’s a reason it gets beaten down. Usually, we don’t like it very much.
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I have attempted to write the following account of myself, as if I were a dead man in another world looking back at my own life. Nor have I found this difficult, for life is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing.
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You break it, you own it.
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Yeah, Dizzee Rascal is a huge influence on what I'm doing. I learnt a lot from him even though he's younger than me.
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I have heard Obama officials say more than once, 'You will have blood on your hands if you publish this story.'
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Nobody ever looked at me in Krasnodar. I'm not in the taste of the men there at all.
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You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.
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Maybe it's my 15 minutes of fame, maybe it's longer.
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Threats mean nothing to me.
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One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.
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I was working at the telephone company in the late '80s as a service representative.
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Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
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As with the butterfly, adversity is necessary to build character in people.
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Americans were people who wanted to leave every place better than they found it, to leave every man more of a man than they found him. ... Americans could open doors to almost all that was admirable - it was their misfortune, not their fault, that movies and victrolas and advertisements squeezed in when they opened the door.
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The sight of burnt orange makes me puke.
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A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
