Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but "one weedy species". We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.Elizabeth Kolbert
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It's pretty funny, just driving by in a cab, and you see a huge billboard of yourself on the side of a hotel, like a 100-by-100 poster hanging up.
Patrick Kane -
For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
J. B. Pritzker -
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.
Joanne Rowling -
I love having the support of my caucus. We have a good working relationship.
Nancy Pelosi -
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.
Maya Angelou -
I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.
Lonny Price
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Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.
Malcolm Muggeridge -
We all need to have a creative outlet - a window, a space - so we don't lose track of ourselves.
Zoketsu Norman Fischer -
Climate change is severely impacting the health of our planet and all of its inhabitants, and we must transition to a clean energy economy that does not rely on fossil fuels.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
Surround yourself with people whose definition of you is not based on your history, but your destiny.
T. D. Jakes -
A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen.
Oscar Wilde -
Cicely Tyson was my inspiration to become an actor.
Viola Davis
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No matter who uses chemical weapons against people and organisations, the international community must formulate a common policy and find a solution that would make the use of such weapons impossible for anyone.
Vladimir Putin -
What I'm interested in is human beings alone.
Paolo Sorrentino -
I think people feel for a long time that they ought to know how to write a novel in two drafts.
Alice Mattison -
Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the real novel. Everybody got to write you -- but when you graduated, you got to write yourself. At graduation you got to collect your teacher's pens and your parents' pens and you got your own pen. And you could do all the writing. Yeah. Wouldn't that be sweet?
Benjamin Alire Saenz -
Human beings are terrible at accepting uncertainty, so when we’re ignorant, we make assumptions based on how we imagine the world.
Hank Green -
As far as Irish writers being great, I think the fact that there have been two languages in Ireland for a very long time; there has obviously been a shared energy between those two languages.
Garry Hynes