Charles C. Mann Quotes
So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.
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A true champion is one who sweats from exhaustion when no one is watching.
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Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
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I have always loved and appreciated the Giants organization, my Giants teammates, and the fans of San Francisco.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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In Germany I am not so famous.
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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When you play in the Premier League, say you're playing against a lower-end team, they set up to defend all the time, they set up to block you off. But when you play in the Champions League, all the other teams are used to winning every week, so it's more of an open game, it's more attacking, end-to-end.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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My family weren't actors, and we didn't know any actors. It wasn't even something I was aware you could do as a job. I thought you had to be a Redgrave or a Barrymore before you were allowed to go to drama school.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.
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I'm from there. You know, when you grow up with these people and see them every day and then you look at the numbers it was easy; it was a no-brainer. And when Sony took a look, it was a no-brainer to them, too.
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We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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When I had worked on my first book, I had readily shown bits and pieces to everyone - for encouragement, to force myself to write.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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A punishment that penalizes without forestalling is indeed called revenge.
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The city of Memphis has demonstrated that neither character nor standing avails the Negro if he dares to protect himself against the white man or become his rival.
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I live in the greatest city in the world for research.
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It's my approach as a filmmaker always to go in, not with a thesis or preconceived notion, but with curiosity and questions and inquiry. So in some way, I'm always surprised. I'm always finding paths of engagement.
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People can easily make millions of dollars without much work in America.
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So many wells have been dug in Changzhou that its groundwater has been over-exploited, and the local ground level has sunk by two feet. The city has officially banned new wells and mandated the installation of pollution controls, but China's endemic corruption ensures that neither measure has much meaning.
