Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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I tell my daughter Nyssa, 'You should respect my work, and I will also respect yours when you grow up.' 'Work is worship' is what I have told her.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.
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The groundhogs are pretty good at eluding. If somebody is trying to come after a ground hog, they go and they burrow.
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The best piece of advice that my mother gave me is to never have a plan B. She told me to stick to plan A because if you have a plan B you will inevitably fall back on it.
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Hollywood has to be a better reflection of the world we live in.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates who've taken over the ship. I am thinking, of course, of that awful art world species: the curator.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Ain't nothing but 10 grand. What's 10 grand to me?
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The trouble with records is that they're too short.
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Never stand when you can sit; never walk when you can ride; never Push when you can Pull.
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Ever since the destruction of Baghdad by the Mongols in 1258, the Muslim world has been in slow decline relative to the west. With Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the creeping British annexation of Muslim India, that decline took on a malign aspect.
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There aren't a lot of ironclad rules of family life, but here's one: No matter how much your parents deny it - and here's betting they deny it a lot - they have a favorite child. And if you're a parent, so do you.
