Rebecca Solnit Quotes
There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
Rebecca Solnit
Quotes to Explore
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I think that it's important for every single person, no matter what they do in life, to participate in the well-being of humanity and the planet. Don't let a year go by knowing you didn't make an effort to do something - no matter how small - outside your own problems and drama.
Salma Hayek
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
Fernando Pessoa
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I'd work for John Waters again, because he's so off the wall.
Tab Hunter
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
Eddie Marsan
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In politics, religion and other areas of culture, people disagree on the worth of competing ideas. There is no equivalent to the scientific method that can determine in a robust way which ideas match the real world, and which ones can be ruled out. So conflicting ideologies persist indefinitely.
Nathan Myhrvold
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Changing the DNA of a large, multilateral organization such as the United Nations to deal effectively with modern threats is not easy. Indeed, when the United Nations was created in the wake of World War II, threats came almost exclusively from one state carrying out acts of aggression against another.
Samantha Power
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No, I wouldn't want the paparazzi ever following me in my life.
Elizabeth Olsen
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You hear about people your whole life, 'So-and-so has cancer,' and you're like, 'Wow, that's too bad,' and then most people tend to go about their day. But when someone tells you that it's your father or it's your family, that doesn't tend to go away.
Jake Owen
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I like to be very girly, with bows and ruffles on the red carpet. I love pastel colours, especially blue. Me and my sister both because of our eyes look good in blues.
Elle Fanning
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I know my ticket is vulnerability. Most people point to some emotional experience, some hardship, some high or low when they talk about my music... a time when they need to feel those feelings more.
Kelela Mizanekristos
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When you're on tour too much or on stage too much, you feel like you have to deliver and get this super-hyped vibe going.
Dolores O'Riordan
The Cranberries
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Middle-class mothers and fathers turned out to be a very well-defined consumer group, easily gulled into buying almost anything that might remedy their parental deficiencies.
Jill Lepore
