It's understandable that when something new comes out that's unfamiliar, scary, and has severe outcomes, it gets a lot of media attention. In fact, the Zika outbreak is unprecedented. We've never before identified a mosquito-borne infection that can cause fetal malformations.


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When I was 20, in 1957, and maybe you would say I was old enough to know better, but nevertheless, I...
TOM STOPPARD
We give advice by the bucket, but take it by the grain.
TOM STOPPARD
The notion that the 'leader' has the right to ask huge sacrifices of your generation for a n...
TOM STOPPARD
The dominant male is history. Could you see a male Lady Gaga? The closest we've got is Justin Bi...
TOM ODELL
After the first day of practice, there's not one guy who's playing at 100 percent or who fee...
TOM BRADY
There were no mail-order catalogues in 1492. Marco Polo's journal was the wish book of Renaissance E...
TOM ROBBINS
I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I...
TOM FORD
When I was a reporter in Bristol, which I was between the years 1954 and 1960, the newspaper would g...
TOM STOPPARD
In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student pro...
TOM STOPPARD
In his first year in office, President Obama pulled us back from the brink of the greatest economic ...
TOM VILSACK
My mother is looking forward to it even more than me! I'll be showing her the bright lights of N...
TOM FELTON
Tom Snyder was born to broadcast. He loved television and it loved him back. In that, he was a membe...
TOM SHALES
The most satisfying accomplishment for me was winning the British Open in 1996. But the most rewardi...
TOM LEHMAN
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it.
TOM STOPPARD
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.
TOM BROKAW
If you have kids, it is the most important thing to create good times.
TOM CRUISE
I'm an all-or-nothing kind of person, and when I become interested in something, I give it my al...
TOM CRUISE
I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.
TOM CRUISE
I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I rea...
TOM CRUISE
Awards are wonderful. I've been nominated many times and I've won many awards. But my journe...
TOM CRUISE
Here's how I've lived my life: I've never been late to a set. I make films I believe in....
TOM CRUISE
I want a world without war, a world without insanity. I want to see people do well. I don't even...
TOM CRUISE
I always look for a challenge and something that's different.
TOM CRUISE
I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.
TOM CRUISE
I'm passionate about learning. I'm passionate about life.
TOM CRUISE
I'm a romantic.
TOM CRUISE
When you become successful in any type of life, there are people who are not contributing to the mot...
TOM CRUISE
Every single time I start to do a picture, without fail, I feel as if I don't know what I'm ...
TOM CRUISE
I would live with all of my sisters if I could. We've always been very close, my sisters and me.
TOM CRUISE
I don't care who you are, life has challenges.
TOM CRUISE
I've been... chased by paparazzi, and they run lights, and they chase you and harass you the who...
TOM CRUISE
Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.
TOM CRUISE
It's well known I'm a Scientologist, and that has helped me to find that inner peace in my l...
TOM CRUISE