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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I've been told by journalists that Facebook is upset anytime we're mentioned.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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What I like about New York City is nobody cares. If they do, they don't ever approach. They just give you a 'What's up?' and that's it.
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I have just been to a city in the West, a city full of poets, a city they have made safe for poets. The whole city is so lovely that you do not have to write it up to make it poetry; it is ready-made for you. But, I don't know - the poetry written in that city might not seem like poetry if read outside of the city. It would be like the jokes made when you were drunk; you have to get drunk again to appreciate them.
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You're not from Puerto Rico, so you should say Puerto Rico like all the other people from the place that you come from.
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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.
