Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
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I'm not willing to commit American taxpayers' money anymore or American troops on the ground in another Middle Eastern country.
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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It's one thing to have forced time off as an actor, and another thing when you actually say, 'I don't want to read anything, and I don't want to talk to anybody.'
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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If we slide into a pattern of just thinking about today, we'll end up reacting to yesterday instead of shaping something more constructive in the world.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time.
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Jesus Christ was a patriot! His country was the world. His laws were the eternal principles of liberty, and his followers, in every age, have been the chosen champions of freedom!
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Time is the devourer of all things.
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And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that.
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I hate to repeat lines, to say the same damned thing. I try to rewrite cliches and make what I say sound fresh.
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I'd like to say that I'm a rock star, but I'm not - I'm honestly more of a relationship kind of guy. I'm a guy you could take home to meet your mum rather than a guy your mum wouldn't like.
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But what I really like are old Hollywood movies. Very often I watch AMC.
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Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.
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'Is there anyone in Chasm City she hasn’t deceived?''Possibly, somewhere, but only as an extreme theoretical possibility.'
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Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. The purpose of the religious experience is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery. In its presence, we are warmed and ignited. When too far from the blaze, we are cold and spiritually lifeless. We are less than human without that heat. Our connection to God is life itself.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I'm not a guy who needs to drink coffee or anything to get myself going in the morning. I wake up, and I'm full of energy.
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I don't like it when people don't know the difference between 'their', 'they're', 'there'.
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There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness; we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?
