Jared Diamond Quotes

Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of our very biggest companies are acting remarkably cleanly. And in some cases, although not all cases, the CEOs are the driving forces behind that.

Jared Diamond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

HopeDrivingYouActingSaidDays

I started out trying to play more straight-ahead jazz. I went to Berklee in the early '60s when it was a brand new school, and so there was no fusion music. There wasn't a lot of mixing together of different kinds of music at that time, so jazz was kind of pure jazz.

John Abercrombie

MusicTimeTogetherSchoolBrand

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

LightExperienceStressMindThink

With golf becoming part of the Olympics now, it is even more imperative that more of the middle class get access to the sport.

Jeev Milkha Singh

GolfNowClassMoreBecomingMiddle

I do say no to things that I think are completely gratuitous.

Amber Valletta

ThinkSayThingsI ThinkGratuitous

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.

Rita Ora

TimeAmazingControlYouLoseBody

Waking up sober is a good day. I love being able to wake up and do positive things, to go to the gym.

Rodney King

PositiveLoveGoodDayGood DayGym

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

Mathias Rust

BalanceIdentityParentsPeopleFace

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. He was like my closest older brother. There's just so much that we lived through together.

Mike D

LifeTogetherDeathBrotherThink

Podcast listening carries with it a faint aura of cultural snobbery, a notion that to cue up an episode is to do something highbrow and personally enriching, whether it's a history lecture broadcast from a university or an amateur talk show recorded in someone's garage.

Michelle Dean

HistoryListeningSomeoneTalkUp

A world championship medal on the road is something that I'm missing from my CV.

Lizzie Armitstead

WorldRoadMissingSomethingMedal

There's more women stars in Nashville all the time. They're proving they can do the job the same as a man.

Loretta Lynn

StarsWomenTimeJobManNashville

Some situations you cause yourself.

Little Richard

YourselfYouCauseSomeSituations

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