Alan Weisman Quotes
But the Earth holds ghosts, even of entire nations.
Alan Weisman
Quotes to Explore
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I was a cleaner while at university. The job wasn't bad, but I was amazed by how badly cleaners are treated - how disrespected they are by the people they work for.
Tamsin Greig
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I haven't actually studied acting at all.
Kat Dennings
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New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.
Daniel Gillies
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I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.
Dan Brown
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I think I was only divorced once, and the rest were annulments. Or, maybe not. I can't keep track actually, because it's not that important. I just am who I am.
Lana Wood
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A big blockbuster like 'Kick' expands the audience for my films and makes it easier to promote them.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.
Parker Stevenson
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
Sacha Guitry
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All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.
Fran Lebowitz
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Sublime is the dominion of the mind over the body, that, for a time, can make flesh and nerve impregnable, and string the sinews like steel, so that the weak become so mighty.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Categorizing is necessary for humans, but it becomes pathological when the category is seen as definitive, preventing people from considering the fuzziness of boundaries, let alone revising their categories.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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Philosophizing means, then, to ascend from public dogma to essentially private knowledge.
Leo Strauss
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I believe that global warming is a myth. And so, therefore, I have no conscience problems at all and I'm going to buy a Suburban next time.
Jerry Falwell
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I'm not surprised about the lack of women on boardrooms. They were only emancipated 200 years ago, and historically, men have dominated. I welcome women as long as they qualify for the job.
David Tang
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What I did for a living for so many years separated who I was from what I did.
Christy Turlington
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I do one Xanth novel a year, because at the moment that is all that publishers will accept; they don't want any other type of fiction from me, so Xanth pays my way.
Piers Anthony
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Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.
Earl Nightingale
