A. J. Jacobs Quotes

I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

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One cannot have economic growth without security.

John Bruton

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In this day and time, with no competition you are really walking a tightrope. I mean you may think that no competition is good, but in reality no competition is really bad.

Jerry Lawler

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I think there's still an appetite among a certain audience to see intelligent movies that have real emotion in them.

Jeremy Irons

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I couldn't do 'Eleanor Rigby' because it was clashing with another project - something I was going to go do - something with Liv Ullmann.

Joel Edgerton

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You know, search has never been a strong suit of Facebook.

Jennifer Lee

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Any time you get to work with creative people - animators, actors, directors and producers, all of this - it helps to refine what tools you'll need moving forward.

John Cassaday

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A lot of athletes use sports psychologists.

Andy Murray

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I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with acting. A professor came to the dorm where I lived looking for people to audition for an August Wilson play, 'Joe Turner's Come And Gone.' I gave it a shot, got one of the lead roles in the play.

Sterling K. Brown

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My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

Robert Webb

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But on the other hand, I don't actively seek out stories or hunt them down.

Russell Banks

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Funny enough, the person who is most bummed out to hear I won't be back is Mark Cuban. Despite what you might surmise from on screen, he and I are actually good friends - just really competitive good friends.

Chris Sacca

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I would never watch 'Lost' on TV; I'd just wait until I could get at least five or six episodes in a row. Saved myself a lot of anxiety that way.

Brandon Jay McLaren

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