Jared Diamond Quotes

All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

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• I'm going to be me, regardless of anything.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Me
  • Going
  • Regardless

• In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.

  

  Beck
  • Fun
  • Rap
  • Means

• I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I always shoot for the moon.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Live
  • Moon
  • Week

• Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • People
  • Great
  • Small

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• I'll come to any benefit if I see SCLC get all the money.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • Money
  • See
  • I See

• As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Think
  • Choice
  • Try

• As a person who performs on stage, it's good to be emotionally open. If you mess with someone when they are in that state, it's like you're messing with an animal when it's eating.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Good
  • Animal
  • Eating

• SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Time
  • Never
  • Direction

• I have always been fascinated by dark and mysterious stuff. I guess I have a pretty dark and gloomy side. Writing songs saves me from going completely gonzo.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Pretty
  • Songs
  • Mysterious

• Belushi was one of my very first heroes. At a time when film, television, and music were undergoing tectonic shifts within American culture, he was at the center of it all. At that moment, he had the number one show on television, the number one film at the box office, and the number one record on the charts.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Time
  • Music
  • American

• With our growing attachment to the online universe comes a refined ability to keep tabs on several things at once, to watch stories unfold on parallel planes.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Growing
  • Universe
  • Watch

• Now I begin to be a disciple... Let fire and cross, flocks of beasts, broken bones, dismemberment... come upon me, so long as I attain to Jesus Christ.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Long
  • Jesus
  • Fire

• Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • America
  • Enemy
  • Segregation

• It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Journey
  • Expected
  • Farther

• It's not like I'm the first man ever to do this, y'know? You gotta go back to Nat King Cole, Bing Crosby and Sammy Davis Jr. Those are people who've done music well and movies well, and y'know, Frank Sinatra and Elvis and all these dudes have made the transition. I don't know about Elvis, 'bout doin' 'em good, y'know? It's nothin' new.

  

  Ice Cube
  • People
  • Good
  • Music

• An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • World
  • Peace

• Russia is tough. The history, the land, the people - brutal.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • People
  • Tough
  • Land

• All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Violence
  • Couple
  • Sex

• If people can't relate to something, there's no use of the song being there.

  

  Johnny Van Zant Lynyrd Skynyrd
  • People
  • Song
  • Something

• When I read, I'm purely a reader.

  

  Anne Tyler

• Phrenology taught us that the mind thinks by means of the brain, is liable to become fatigued by too long attention, as the locomotive muscles are by too much walking; and I therefore proposed to them to take a brief rest.

  

  George Combe
  • Long
  • Mind
  • Attention

• All human societies go through fads in which they temporarily either adopt practices of little use or else abandon practices of considerable use.

  

  Jared Diamond