Gary A. Klein Quotes
Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
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We who came here saw what was happening. This was far more than a war in a faraway place. This was a moral imperative, a terrible vision of the future.
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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Frankie Muniz is amazing at everything he does. Many people don't know that he can play the piano like you wouldn't believe, and he can bowl and play basketball like you wouldn't believe.
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Sanitising stories, leaching out all of the sense of danger and the darkness out of the stories, actually reduces them and stops them from doing what they're supposed to do, which is teach us how to manage our lives.
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Don't take for granted that the worthiness of your cause will win you allies; bring it down to a scale that people can relate to.
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I like there to be some interest in every element of my life.
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I like working on things that are very different and that involve different disguises.
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Myrnin came in from the back room, carrying a load of books, which he dropped with a loud bang on the floor to glare at the two of them. "Excuse me," he said, "but when did my lab become appropriate for snogging?" "What's snogging?" Shane asked. "Ridiculous displays of inappropriate affection in front of me. Roughly translated. And what are you doing here?
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Discovery is the privilege of the child: the child who has no fear of being once again wrong, of looking like an idiot, of not being serious, of not doing things like everyone else.
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Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more telling. To know that a thing actually happened gives it a poignancy, touches a chord, which a piece of acknowledged fiction misses. It is to touch this chord that some authors have done everything they could to give you the impression that they are telling the plain truth.
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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
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The whites have always had the say in America. White people made Jesus white, angels white, the Last Supper white. If I threaten you, I'm blackmailing you. A black cat is bad luck. If you're put out of a club, you're blackballed. Angel's-food cake is white; devil's-food cake is black. Good guys in cowboy movies wear white hats. The bad guys always wore black hats.
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Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
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His father was a post player; he's a skill player. He can play multiple positions, and he can shoot the basketball.
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I'll teach you differences.
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I'm a big girl, Finn.
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It's like there's this boldness that I have where I'm driven by something that I can't name.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
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It is always edifying for mortals to look at a god.
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Slow adaptation is driven by forces such as evolution. Fast adaptation is driven by forces such as insight.
