Tom Frieden Quotes

Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.

Tom Frieden

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: public
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: December 7, 1960

Topics

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The less you think counterfactually, the less you experience stress. Stress, in this light, isn't a bad thing. It's simply a warning system telling you that your mind has lost touch with what's real.

Andrew J. Bernstein

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The party of Kennedy is also the party of Eastland. The party of Javits is also the party of Goldwater.

John Lewis

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And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

John Zorn

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As long as I can sing and hit the notes, I want to do that.

Trisha Yearwood

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If Art relates itself to an Object, it becomes descriptive, divisionist, literary.

Robert Delaunay

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I always said put me in front of 40 or 50,000 people and play hockey, I'm comfortable there. Put me in front of 50 people to talk or get in front of, and that's where I'm probably the least comfortable.

Ron Francis

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It was a few days later I came out to Hollywood for a screen test, and so did a lot of other people. So, I really didn't think I would get it. I was definitely the one that was least likely to get it, because everyone else was an already established star.

Mary Steenburgen

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My earliest memories are of watching 'Star Trek' and 'MASH' while my parents barbecued chicken in the back yard. I was an American kid, through and through.

Mohsin Hamid

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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.

Louis C. K.

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Advertisers are not thinking radically enough - they look for technology to lead instead of trying the neuroscience approach and thinking about what parts of the brain haven't been activated before. These new experiences bring new capabilities to the brain.

Jaron Lanier

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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.

Denise Mina

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The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gold Coast' by DeMille. I loved it, and it gave me a lot of energy to start into my own.

Douglas Brunt

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