Jared Diamond Quotes

Tasmanian history is a study of human isolation unprecedented except in science fiction - namely, complete isolation from other humans for 10,000 years.

Jared Diamond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: September 10, 1937

Topics

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It's only in hindsight that you realize what indeed your childhood was really like.

Maya Lin

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Of front-line importance among the most contagious and enduring traits of the leaders of nations and of all callings is that of spotless character.

John Mott

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Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That's power.

Steve Bannon

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Well, Apple invented the PC as we know it, and then it invented the graphical user interface as we know it eight years later (with the introduction of the Mac). But then, the company had a decade in which it took a nap.

Steve Jobs

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L.A. and America, in general, have this incredible hustle about them. There's this sense of momentum.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

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It was my full intent as a teenager to smash capitalism and eat dumpster food.

Sophia Amoruso

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I went to a restaurant that serves 'breakfast at any time'. So I ordered French Toast during the Renaissance.

Steven Wright

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When you immerse yourself in medicine you realise that hope is not absolute. It's not that simple.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

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People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.

Tori Amos

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I've always summed up my definition of fashion as the way that people present themselves on the public stage.

Robin Givhan

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Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse.

Rod Serling

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At the end of my career, am I going to say I did well, but I didn't give it my all? I'd be very, very angry with myself if I didn't give 100 percent. If I gave my all and I got to whatever point in the world, I could look back and at least I say I did the best I could.

Jason Day

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