Egziabher Quotes & Sayings

I can give you the cause of anaphylactic shock in a nutshell. — Gary Delaney

There are still hungry people in Ethiopia, but they are hungry because they
have no money, no longer because there is no food to buy ... we strongly
resent the abuse of our poverty to sway the interests of the European
public. — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

The Nuffield report suggests that there is a moral imperative for investment into GM crop research in developing countries. But the moral imperative is in fact the opposite. The policy of drawing of funds away from low-cost sustainable agriculture research, towards hi-tech, exclusive, expensive and unsafe technology is itself ethically questionable. There is a strong moral argument that the funding of GM technology in agriculture is harming the long-term sustainability of agriculture in the developing world. — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

If there is one thing I'd learned about hospitals, it's that they aren't interested in healing you. They are interested in stabilizing you, and then everyone is supposed to move on. They go to stabilize some more people, and you go off to do whatever you do. Healing, if it happens at all, is done on your own, long after the hospital has submitted your final insurance paperwork. — Eric Nuzum

Fear changes everything. We're animals, and when we get afraid we act like animals. I'm not exempt from that. — Tony Gilroy

The husbandman is always a better Greek than the scholar is prepared to appreciate, and the old custom still survives, while antiquarians and scholars grow gray in commemorating it. — Henry David Thoreau

I am local, rural, communal. And I find that the whole world is a community. We have made progress in asserting our local community rights globally. We shall continue to do so. — Tewolde Berhan Gebre Egziabher

A book is sacred gift. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's not the wanting part that makes you crazy. It's the blackmailing-me-into-marrying-you-and-giving-you-a-baby that brings your mental health into question." Jennifer — Penny Reid

I guess it really didn't even dawn on me that you could be a rock critic as a job until I was maybe almost out of college. I knew criticism existed. I read Rolling Stone and Spin. Siskel and Ebert were on television. But I had absolutely no idea how to get that kind of life. And moreover, it didn't interest me that much. I just sort of read normal books growing up. I wasn't that media-conscious. I felt like the one thing I was able to do was to listen to a record and decide whether I liked it. — Chuck Klosterman