John Seabrook Quotes
In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I love elephants! It's my favorite animal.
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I've been disappointed by so many movie stars that I've seen, and they go out and they don't do it up, you know. And they don't - I just get so disappointed.
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'Dr. Strangelove' was and is one of my favorite movies ever, and I just can't believe they actually blew up the world after that.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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It's a great feat for me to have broken my world record.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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In the long run we are all dead.
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Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
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Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his poems. The letters were fresh, intimate and irreverent, as though he were present and speaking. The Keats spell went very deep for me.
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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can’t solve extreme poverty and disease isn’t just mistaken. It is harmful. That’s why in this year’s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same.
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In the nineteen-eighties, rates of obesity started to rise sharply in the U.S. and around the world. By the nineteen-nineties, obesity reached epidemic proportions.
