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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I don't turn my nose up at anything. If it's a great part, it's a great part. I'd love to do a box-office hit.
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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his own lifetime amounted to more than 400 titles, and his magnum opus, on which he labored most of his life, remains unpublished: a commentary on every verse of every book of the Bible.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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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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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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Economics is not a discipline that comes to correct answers - economies are too complex.
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Inspiration is an underexamined part of political life and presidential leadership.
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You really have to act on the force, too. You're involved in a hundred things a day, and you have to react in a hundred different ways, depending on what's going on. And you learn that as you go through your career, how you handle certain situations, interrogations, how you carry yourself. There's a kind of acting to it.
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I have always wanted to do something high octane. I've wanted to tackle an action role where I play a tomboy but empower myself as a woman.
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A woman can walk miles without making one single step forward. As a child born in a harem, I instinctively knew that to live is to open closed doors. To live is to look outside. To live is to step out. Life is trespassing.
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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.
