Larry Brilliant Quotes
Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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As a kid, I was always very thin, and I kind of didn't know that I was skinny.
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Origin stories are really important to me. I just like that sort of stuff and I feel like it makes a lot of sense to the guys, who they are. If you don't have that stuff, it's kind of a one dimensional version of it.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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Music is almost like a therapy for me. It helps keep me centered and think straight. Before I discovered it, I was walking around, and it felt like there were 25 extra pounds of gravity on my shoulders. It's like you're mute or something.
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The simplest toy, one which even the youngest child can operate, is called a grandparent.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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Simply, I believe the United States should lower the voting age to 17.
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The first part of my life, as a player, has ended but now I'm heading into an equally important part as a manager, hoping to do as well as I did on the field.
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I have an insatiable palate. I'll try anything once, with an open mind. However, there is a special place in my heart for Kraft Macaroni & Cheese. Don't get me wrong, I've sampled specialty Mac & Cheese all over the world, but nothing competes with the stuff I grew up on.
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What bothers me, I guess, is when I get these messages from girls on Twitter, and they're like, 'God, you're my idol, I really admire you.' It's like, 'Admire me for what? What have I done?' It's not that being in a Burberry campaign, or walking in a Chanel show is nothing. It's just... I know I can do more.
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I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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I am aware that I look good for my age. It's my genes. My dad looked incredibly young, so did my mother. And a younger husband helps. Scott is only 45. If he hadn't come along, I don't know what I'd have done.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I wanted 'Southland' to feel immediate, like a ride-along, and to make it the closest thing possible to a cop reality show. We've got real cops out there every day. A lot of times we'll say, 'You guys just do what you normally do and we'll film it.'
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Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal.
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When I talk of hearing a poet's voice speaking, I always think of it as in the presence of the man.
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All things are in a state of vibration. Vibrations from objects in our surroundings are constantly impinging upon us and carry to our senses a cognition of the external world. The vibrations in the ether act upon our eyes so that we see, and vibrations in the air transmit sounds to the ear.
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If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
