Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.Elizabeth Kolbert
Quotes to Explore
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The difference between eccentricity and originality in historical studies is often difficult to detect at first encounter. When a radically new interpretation of a large segment of history makes its appearance, time is needed to sift the evidence.
Edmund Morgan -
I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
Nathan Fillion -
I have a lot of friends who do EDM music; they had to tell me what a 'drop' was.
Yuna -
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz -
Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
Zhang Yimou -
The most important thing is to enjoy yourself and have a good time.
C. Z. Guest
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And we lost a lot because of that, and I think this is future gymnastics to separate ages. Because kids can do it more than adult. A woman and adult woman can show more than the small kids.
Olga Korbut -
Some call me a Cuban hyphen American. I reject that. I don't believe in hyphenated Americans.
Carlos Beruff -
Don't let failure get you down. Babe Ruth struck out over 1,300 times.
Lou Holtz -
I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people.
Barack Obama -
If Donald Trump loses badly, it could mean the end of the GOP as one of the two significant parties.
Chuck Klosterman -
If I basically view criticism as sort of an interesting form of writing about oneself, an interesting form of autobiography, then I don't feel any pressure to have any kind of authoritative, universal voice. That kind of thing has never interested me.
Chuck Klosterman
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...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.
Marianne Williamson -
The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee.
Abraham Lincoln -
All is flux; nothing stays still.
Heraclitus -
Directors, writers, and actors are interested in making movies with me. Producers and movie studio people are not interested in me as they are in Kevin Costner or Tom Cruise. That's just the fact of the matter.
Michael O'Keefe -
More than a billion people use the Internet, yet only a tiny fraction contribute their knowledge to it.
Adam D'Angelo -
You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Master your responses to external events--don't attempt to control them.
Caroline Myss -
We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.
Elizabeth Kolbert