Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.
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I joined the Actors Studio and began to work with Lee Strasberg, and that changed my work.
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It is the ability to choose which makes us human.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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If you're human, you've had phases in your life when things are in flux.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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None can be more negative in its impact than the limitation on human resource capacity.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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Our lives and our culture have been significantly changed and improved by hardware, software, and services developed by immigrants.
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Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.
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You are enough, which I believe is critical for any human being to get in their bones.
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.
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I remember when I met my wife and that she could just grab my hand and I would just ease. I don't know how to say that but it was one of the coolest things. It was strange, but it definitely changed my life.
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There can be a fundamental gulf of gracelessness in a human heart which neither our love nor our courage can bridge.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
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I try to stay a civilian, to live as a human, not as a poet.
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Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.
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Autism is not a snapshot. It's a life.
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I changed my hopes to being a singer when I was a child and sat around with my hair in my face droning Mac Davis songs. Writing was sort of a last stand. Come to think of it, it was the only "talent" I had that anyone asked for more of.
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International peace and security depend on certain taboos that are easily recognized when they are broken. It can be more important for an intervention to take place because nuclear or chemical or biological weapons are used as opposed to just measuring how many people are killed.
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I feel like we have to keep our eyes on the road. Being nostalgic is like taking an offramp and getting a sandwich - and then you get back on the highway. I don't want to be spending the rest of my life at the gas station.
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There's no field of music which doesn't have good ideas.
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I did not mean to suggest that autism could be traced to Neanderthal genes. The point is that some genes that have been implicated in autism changed pretty significantly between the time Neanderthal line and human line split.
