Charles C. Mann Quotes
A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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Last year in a historic move, the state of New York passed the very first cigarette fire safety standard.
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With this film, 'Need For Speed,' with this, we had a blank canvas to work with. What we had to do was have fast cars, and that's it.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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No access to me, nor my staff, will ever affect what we do to protect consumers of the state of Florida.
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I open the doors for everybody all the time.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I love hard punch lines, and I like anything that has a strong point of view.
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There is a restaurant in L.A. called Crustacean, which is very famous for its garlic crab. Well, I can make garlic crab better than Crustacean. My sauce is so good you'll want to dip your bread in it, put it on your egg omelet, in your cereal, and in everything else.
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I happen to be the kind of reader who, if I like something, I don't want it to end.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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Because I first made my name as a rapper claiming South Central L.A., people often assume I'm strictly a West Coast cat. But my family was actually from back East. I was born in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in Summit, an upscale town in north Jersey.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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A lot of reality shows tend to harp on the negative. The person isn't pretty enough or can't sing well enough or maybe isn't even funny enough.
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My memory's not too good.
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A good listener goes a long way.
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Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view.
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I pinch myself every day anyway. Everyone knows the road I have had in the game and how I have managed to get myself to where I am today.
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A whole bunch of big technological shocks occurred when Asian innovations - paper, gunpowder, the stirrup, the moldboard plow and so on - came to Europe via the Silk Road.
