Jared Diamond Quotes

Australia is the most isolated continent.

Jared Diamond

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• Reporters used to ask me the same inane questions year-in and year-out, city-to-city, and it would drive me crazy.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • City
  • Crazy
  • Same

• Anytime you put a movie out it's subject to such scrutiny and such criticism.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Movie
  • You
  • Criticism

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• It was a lovely opportunity for the first time in my whole career to stand up and thank people who are really responsible for me getting to realize my dreams.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• To secure peace is to prepare for war.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War
  • Peace
  • Prepare

• The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Expression
  • Played
  • Relation

• In the not so distant past, we were close enough to our community to physically see how our actions impacted the group overall. Now it's just too easy to look the other way, or turn off the TV or computer and detach ourselves from the others.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Past
  • Community
  • Easy

• I get people to this day - I won my title 25 years ago - saying how wonderful a time they had during that dark period in our history when they came to watch me fight.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • People
  • Time
  • History

• My kids love going to school. When my son started going to kindergarten, we asked him, 'How was it?' and his only complaint was that he didn't get to stay in there longer.

  

  Camila Alves
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• I don't watch television, but I saw 'The Office' by accident. I thought it was so sophisticated, the Victorian love story, and so bold. We'd do anything, all of us, to not work in that environment, and then I'm sitting there watching hours of it.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Work
  • Love
  • Environment

• I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Nala from 'The Lion King' - and it's a bit weird but various of my ex-girlfriends actually did look like Nala.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Weird
  • King
  • Lion

• The British state already invests in early intervention campaigns in drug abuse and sexual health. Challenging extremism should be no less of a priority.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Health
  • Drug
  • Abuse

• Education and work are the levers to uplift a people.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • People
  • Work
  • Education

• Whoever speaks of Europe is wrong: it is a geographical expression.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • Wrong
  • Expression
  • Europe

• I'm laughing because I know the secret of life. And the secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I know that I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life
  • Secret
  • Existence

• Divisional exercise is a great game of make-believe.

  

  Patrick MacGill
  • Great
  • Believe
  • Game

• Directing is more comfortable for me because, as an actor, there's always something inherently false. Because I'm not that person.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Person
  • Actor
  • Comfortable

• I hope it's always going to be a mix between theatre, film and radio. I've been very lucky living in London that you can do all that - in New York and L.A., there's more of a structure for film in L.A. and theatre in New York. In London, our industry is smaller, but it produces brilliant work all in one place.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Work
  • Hope
  • Theatre

• What is happening now to me in my career is amazing, so I dwell on the things that are happening rather than the things that aren't, because what's the point? It doesn't make them happen.

  

  Katherine Kelly
  • Career
  • Amazing

• 'You’ve no appreciation of high romance, that’s your trouble,' Lewis said, climbing in and starting the motor. Joseph nodded somberly. 'Boy meets girl, girl loses boy, everybody dies. I just don’t get it.'

  

  Kage Baker
  • High
  • Girl
  • Boy

• My truth is I am gay and out, and if I can't do that in my music, then I don't need it. Fortunately, I do feel like there is a movement against homophobia, and I hope to be part of that.

  

  Billy Porter
  • Music
  • Truth
  • Hope

• The trick is, after all, obvious. The Theist takes terms that can apply to sentient life alone, and applies them to the universe at large. He talks about means, that is, the deliberate planning to achieve certain ends, and then says that as there are means there must be ends. Having, unperceived, placed the rabbit in the hat, he is able to bring it forth to the admiration of his audience.

  

  Chapman Cohen
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Trick

• Australia is the most isolated continent.

  

  Jared Diamond