A. J. Jacobs Quotes
A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
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Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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Nobody is bothered about an institution more than its alumni.
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The Internet has turned the world into one gigantic linked community, capable of instantly sharing vast amounts of incorrect information.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I can't take the theater side out of myself.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.
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No element gets people telling crazy stories like mercury does. People have told me tales about pharmacists waxing floors with mercury, mothers rubbing it into babies' skin to kill germs, and 10-year-olds coating dimes in it to make them shine, then blithely carrying them around in their pockets.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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It's nice for me to be in touch with a younger generation.
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Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you'll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you'll find that you have more of it.
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That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produced it myself, and developed it, and made it with New Line, which is a smaller studio, so I was in control of a lot of stuff that I wasn't in control of for my other films.
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I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes.
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I was so ashamed of who I was.
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When something terrible happens, how you react determines who you are from then on.
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There are always ridiculous things on television or on the Internet that make people go, 'Did you see that?' That could be anything from a clip from the 'Real Housewives' to someone jumping off their roof and missing the pool to a zillion other things.
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I'm fighting for people who cannot wait for changes, and I'm not making promises that I cannot keep.
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And I'm walking along and we're laughing, kidding, joking, and see he understood the leader, the one we called the leader, had some knowledge of English, although limited.
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When I started to write, I realised that you need a bit of both: the overall context as well as the individual's experience.
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A loud noise will get your fight-or-flight response going. This, over the years, can cause real cardiovascular damage.
