Alex Shoumatoff Quotes

The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size is adaptive in a rain forest. You can move around more easily and unobtrusively. Not only humans but other species are smaller in rain forests.

Alex Shoumatoff

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 4, 1946

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I sometimes go to a movie and eat my popcorn and turn my brain off. I love those movies. But the movies I like to be in, for the most part, are the ones that challenge you.

Jessica Chastain

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Lack of charisma can be fatal.

Jenny Holzer

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In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

John McLaughlin

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I would absolutely recommend against excessive positivity and optimism. Any positive emotion that you're infusing into a workplace needs to be grounded in reality. If it's not realistic, sincere, meaningful, and individualized, it won't do much good.

Tom Rath

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I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.

Robert De Niro

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I admire how Tarantino finds music that's semifamiliar and not famous: undiscovered gems.

Rod Lurie

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It is so stupid of modern civilisation to have given up believing in the devil when he is the only explanation of it.

Ronald Knox

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I've chosen to treat my life more like a party than something to stress about.

Martin Short

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I grew up with a single mother, and although we didn't have a lot of money, she cared a great deal about what we ate. We were the original health-food family. We shopped at what were called health-food stores before Whole Foods - everything came from bins.

Mona Simpson

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I realized very early the power of food to evoke memory, to bring people together, to transport you to other places, and I wanted to be a part of that.

Jose Andres

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Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

Suzanne Somers

ForgivenessYourselfGiftYouGive

I love exploring the relationship between fathers and daughters. I think that's a special thing, especially with daughters who are dealing with being adults.

Tim Daly

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