Jeffrey Kluger Quotes
A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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In a modern loft, you can't just fill a space with furniture. Each piece has to be perfect.
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Religious faith, like political belief, should be based on reasoning, on the development of thought and feelings. The two things are inseparable.
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The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.
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I think that people always just assumed that I was a liberal because I came from Southeast Seattle.
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Cotton Mather's publications in his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible. Anyone who leaves that kind of record behind issues an irresistible invitation to historians.
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I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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I'm usually listening to Sirius Satellite in the morning. 'The Heat' usually plays good music.
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Climate change - for so long an abstract concern for an academic few - is no longer so abstract. Even the Bush administration's Climate Change Science Programme reports 'clear evidence of human influences on the climate system.'
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It's so funny because I listen to songs that I recorded that I didn't really know anything about at the time. Later on I'm starting to feel the songs. Sing them first, feel them later.
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I'm not ashamed of anything that I've done because when I did it, I was passionate about it and I was doing it for a reason.
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When a noble life has prepared for old age, it is not decline that it reveals, but the first days of immortality.
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I really like working, the opportunity to work with good people and to play interesting parts.
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Kids and adults are treated differently on sets. Being a kid, you can get away with anything, and it looks cute. But as an adult, it's a whole new journey.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
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In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man; if you want anything done, ask a woman.
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I think writers are born, not made.
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The subject matter of the show, 'Cabaret,' was more than risky. And the emcee I would be playing didn't have a single line of dialogue. Still, it was full of possibilities, and it was mine.
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As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.
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A jellyfish is little more than a pulsating bell, a tassel of trailing tentacles and a single digestive opening through which it both eats and excretes - as regrettable an example of economy of design as ever was.
