A. J. Jacobs Quotes
My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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For me, songwriting starts with a melody. When a musician plays a chord progression, either the words and vocal melody come to me, or they don't. That's how I determine who to write with. It works, or it doesn't.
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Love is the strongest and most fragile thing we have in life.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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Prohibition, like so many other policies imposed from the moral high ground, typically by those who do not drink, disproportionately affects the poor who resort to illegally brewed alcohol when they want a drink, not infrequently leading to their death, and are more likely to be harassed by the police.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.
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I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
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A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
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I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
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People will say, 'How do I get abs like you?' I don't know. We're all different. If my girlfriend did what I did, hiking and yoga for a workout, it would affect her body in a different way. That's the message that I really want to get out there. I'm trying to counteract that culture.
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable explosives.
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I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
