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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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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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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When I was a teen, I thought I would have to choose between my writing or my music or my art, but it turns out it's a difficult juggling game but I can do all of them.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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Do not ghettoize society by putting people into legal categories of gender, race, ethnicity, language, or other such characteristics.
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For two and a half years, I rigorously trained seven to eight hours a day in two disciplines of dance but moved on to the most versatile medium called cinema which encompassed every form of art.
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I was really exposed to great old-time literature - the classics, the poetic realists like Strindberg and Ibsen and all those guys. I was really inspired by all those guys. That's when writing became a primary focus.
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There's an amazing documentary, 'The Day After Trinity,' which is crazy good.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
