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 like to have a home for people just to have a lot of fun.
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We need to encourage people to speak up, to speak out, because the more people who participate in our democracy, the more our democracy grows.
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Lord knows I'm not the poster child for eating right and exercising, so I don't want to give that impression at all! This is the same person who people have watched have a weight problem in her teens, so come on!
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There's no telling what might have happened to our defense budget if Saddam Hussein hadn't invaded Kuwait that August and set everyone gearing up for World War II. Can we count on Saddam Hussein to come along every year and resolve our defense-policy debates? Given the history of the Middle East, it's possible.
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Only those who went hungry with me and stood by me when I went through a bad time at some point in life will eat at my table.
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Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.
