Jared Diamond Quotes

AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing with these issues would cost about $25 billion... It's, what, a few months in Iraq.

Jared Diamond

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

StartSecurityCostNational Security

Michael Jackson asked me to sign a Playboy. I was more than happy to.

Jessica Hahn

HappyMeMoreSignThanPlayboy

I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

Jean-Francois Cope

ForgivenessTeamworkAmbitionOver

For me, there have been times when an action movie, even a 'Tomb Raider,' has helped me get out of myself and be physical again. It's like therapy.

Angelina Jolie

MyselfMeActionTherapyOutGet

My mom is an incredibly direct person, and I like things to make sense.

Amanda Seales

MomPersonThingsSenseLikeDirect

I've had to learn how to say no to things, and have people around me that don't push me too hard, because I'll go until I just crash. I don't have a stop button.

Tove Lo

PeopleMeLearnPushStopGo

There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.

Tom Ford

WorkGreatFocusDayTalentDrive

In the underlying bill, I think the authors of the legislation, those in support of it, understand the use of the Mississippi River. Yes, there is commercial navigation on it, and there will be tomorrow.

Ron Kind

SupportTomorrowRiverThinkWill

Saudi Arabia isn't just a conservative country with different values we shouldn't judge. It is a modern Gilead.

Mona Eltahawy

JudgeValuesCountryConservative

I wonder if some artists determine their entire identity through that which they create. How dangerous! Imagine if they were to stop creating!

Josh Malerman

IdentityWonderCreateDangerous

I remember that at the beginning of the month, the kind of menus my mom and father would prepare for us would have fish, chicken. But at the end of the month - because my father would be waiting for paycheck - the refrigerator would get empty. I remember that without a lot of food left, some of the best meals happened right there.

Jose Andres

FatherFoodBestBeginningWaiting

Anybody can write a film script 'cuz it has been reduced to a formula.

Dirk Benedict

WriteFilmBeenAnybodyScriptCuz

If you start becoming withdrawn and looking over your shoulder, being careful about what you say, that's being paranoid. This is an open, accessible team. That's been my trademark for years.

Art Modell

TeamLookingStartYouSayShoulder

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