Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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I didn't want to leave Newcastle, but that's football.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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The job as a coach is difficult.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.
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There are 10 men in me and I do not know or understand one of them.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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My three husbands were afraid of me. I am a very powerful woman.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.
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I liked the people at Brown, while I really disliked most of the fellow students I had met at Northwestern.
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Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.
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I often feel like a pretender when wearing makeup. The most beautiful features in a woman are her character and her experiences. Why hide that?
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Since we have no systematic way to avoid all the inconsistencies of commonsense logic, each person must find his own way by building a private collection of 'cognitive censors' to suppress the kinds of mistakes he has discovered in the past.
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I can't spend a lot of time worrying about the numbers at home. I've got to focus on the mission.
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It is not yoga that injures, but the way one does yoga that leads to injury.
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When you're your parents' one shot at a genetic legacy, you may get to attend all the best schools, wear all the best clothes and eat all the best foods - at least relative to children in multiple-sibling households. But you also wind up with an overweening sense of your own importance.
