I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.


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JARED DIAMOND
Most people are explicitly racists. In parts of the world - so called educated, so-called western so...
JARED DIAMOND
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
JARED DIAMOND
Twenty years ago, you might have been pessimistic and said there's no hope. But these days, some of ...
JARED DIAMOND
If you gave me 10 million dollars, I wouldn't live any differently. Although nowadays I guess you'd ...
JARED DIAMOND
The United States has long thought of itself as the land of infinite plenty, and historically we did...
JARED DIAMOND
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's ea...
JARED DIAMOND
Tasmania lies 130 miles southeast of Australia. When it was first visited by Europeans in 1642, Tasm...
JARED DIAMOND
With the MacArthur grant, I realized that people have high expectations of me, that they were placin...
JARED DIAMOND
What did the last Easter Islander say as he chopped down the last tree? The Easter Islanders didn't ...
JARED DIAMOND
Federal elections happen every two years in this country. Presidential elections every four years. A...
JARED DIAMOND
The rate of human invention is faster, and the rate of cultural loss is slower, in areas occupied by...
JARED DIAMOND
AIDS and malaria and TB are national security issues. A worldwide program to get a start on dealing ...
JARED DIAMOND
If one of those friendly societies itself runs into environmental problems and collapses for environ...
JARED DIAMOND
The problem is that only a tiny minority of wild plants and animals lend themselves to domestication...
JARED DIAMOND
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-h...
JARED DIAMOND
The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have ...
JARED DIAMOND
Technology has to be invented or adopted.
JARED DIAMOND
Guns, Germs and Steel
JARED DIAMOND
why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of Af...
JARED DIAMOND
In much of the rest of the world, rich people live in gated communities and drink bottled water. Tha...
JARED DIAMOND
Much of human history has consisted of unequal conflicts between the haves and the have-nots.
JARED DIAMOND
To me, the conclusion that the public has the ultimate responsibility for the behavior of even the b...
JARED DIAMOND
Livestock adopted in Africa were Eurasian species that came in from the north. Africa's long axis, l...
JARED DIAMOND
The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island, isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got int...
JARED DIAMOND
The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North Amer...
JARED DIAMOND
Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter...
JARED DIAMOND
This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND
It's a clear signal that Pennsylvanians have awoke from their long slumber.
RUSS DIAMOND
Many cases are won or lost during the jury selection phase of the case.
JAMES DIAMOND
Humans have been evolving for millions of years longer in Africa than in Europe, and even anatomical...
JARED DIAMOND
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, i...
JARED DIAMOND
Technology causes problems as well as solves problems. Nobody has figured out a way to ensure that, ...
JARED DIAMOND
We study the injustices of history for the same reason that we study genocide, and for the same reas...
JARED DIAMOND
How is it that Pizarro and Cortes reached the New World at all, before Aztec and Inca conquistadors ...
JARED DIAMOND
Australia is the most isolated continent.
JARED DIAMOND
They repealed the pay raise but they didn't repeal the indelible mark it left on the taxpayers from ...
RUSS DIAMOND
Instead of just giving us a tax break and putting the money back into the General Fund, we've got to...
RUSS DIAMOND
The legislators are confused and scared right now. But that doesn't change a thing for us.
RUSS DIAMOND
I think that the voters fully understand what's going on here.
RUSS DIAMOND
They can do it again. It?s time to take back our government.
RUSS DIAMOND
Tasmanians actually abandoned some technologies that they brought with them from Australia and that ...
JARED DIAMOND
This is a great way to celebrate the 25th Anniversary and re-live the magic of THE BLUES BROTHERS on...
DAN DIAMOND
I'm left handed, but my dad taught me to play guitar right-handed.
DUSTIN DIAMOND
Life is a series of lessons in which there is never enough learned.
DIAMOND RYAN