"Human societies vary in lots of independent factors affecting their openness to innovation."

-- Jared Diamond

#Independent Quotes #Innovation Quotes #Openness Quotes

“[H]istory showed that many people had lost their respect for any religion that had relied upon the support of government to spread its faith.”
“It's like aversion therapy. You keep doing scenes over and over again with three women in the bed with you, and we had to do them all in one week. Three girls would step out and another three girls would step into the bed.It sounds like a fantasy but by the end of it, I just wanted to go for a hike on my own in the north of England, in the hills. Because it became a sort of "be careful what you wish for" kinda thing.”

Source : "Q&A: Steve Coogan on Sex, Drugs & Bad Press". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. July 9, 2013.
“The plague of gold strikes far and near.”
“I couldnt really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to.”
“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.”
“I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere.”

Source : "Meet a matinee idol". The Scotsman Interview, www.scotsman.com. June 18, 2009.
“It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.”
“None of that is necessary. It's not as if we're in a situation where it is us or them.There's something peculiar about talking about the moral status of animals, when we are killing and eating them for no reason whatsoever.”

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