"I personally am not conscious of my accent." — Jared Diamond
"I personally am not conscious of my accent."
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88 Quotes by Jared Diamond
Jared Diamond has 88 quotes on this site.
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Today Charles Darwin is best known for establishing the fact of evolution and for recognizing the major role of natural…
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Recent discoveries about apes suggest, however, that a gorilla or common chimp stands at least as good a chance being…
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
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In contrast [to trees and fish], oil, metals, and coal are not renewable; they don't reproduce, sprout, or have sex…
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The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago…
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Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of…
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The history of interactions among disparate peoples is what shaped the modern world through conquest, epidemics and genocide. Those collisions…
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One way to explain the complexity and unpredictability of historical systems, despite their ultimate determinacy, is to note that long…
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When you have seen the errors in which you live, you will understand the good that we have done you…
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The past was still a Golden Age, of ignorance, while the present is an Iron Age of willful bliss.
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It invites a search for ultimate causes: why were Europeans, rather than Africans or Native Americans, the ones to end…
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Besides justifying the transfer of wealth to kleptocrats, institutionalized religion brings two other important benefits to centralized societies. First, shared…
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More Accent Quotes
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I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge, I made great efforts to lose…
— Peter Ackroyd
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I love accents - I wish I could find an accent for every one of my characters. It makes it…
— Amy Adams
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'Batman' took 10 months to film, and by the time I stopped working on it, it took a long time…
— Christian Bale
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The Israeli accent wasn't one that I was overly familiar with so had to learn from scratch but I was…
— Eric Bana
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In Delaware, the largest growth in population is Indian-Americans moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-11 or a…
— Joe Biden
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I think it's sort of a rite of passage for a British actor to try and get the American accent…
— Orlando Bloom
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If you're in America a lot, it's easy to get into playing American. All of it, the sounds, the energies,…
— Emily Blunt
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I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
— Erma Bombeck
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I love New York. I'm a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.
— Anthony Bourdain
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I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for…
— Bill Bryson
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God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of…
— Nicolas Cage
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When I'm doing an accent, you shouldn't notice it for a while, if I'm doing it right.
— Michael Caine
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