Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.
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The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them.
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Although China and United States are competitors, China and the United States are indeed partners in trade.
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I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
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I would say that there is no future for literary studies as such in the United States.
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The United States' gasoline industry, as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita demonstrated, is remarkably fragile. And the process of how oil is pumped from the ground, turned into gasoline and distributed to consumers is complicated.
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Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
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I have not broken the laws of the United States or the laws of the Dominican Republic.
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I am a Justin Bieber fan, but I am also so fascinated by how weird pop music can be and how manipulated it can be, so I enjoy thinking about that side of it too. I feel bad for him. I could never imagine growing up that way.
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I'm interested in seeking projects no matter where, no matter if it is in the United States, whether in Chile, whether in Venezuela.
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We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
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In the United States, there one feels free... Except from the Americans - but every pearl has its oyster.
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The United States should not frame its policy options in terms of doing nothing or unilaterally sending in the Marines.
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We have a lot of Brazilians in the United States. It doesn't mean we're traitors to our country.
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We can see our liberties vanishing here in the United States... A little bit here and a little piece there... We can see it, we can feel it, and we can hear it.
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I can get a firestorm going anywhere in the United States by saying 'O.J.'
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The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.
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People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.
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Egypt has been a partner of the United States over the last 30 years, has been instrumental in keeping the peace in the Middle East between Egypt and Israel, which is a critical accomplishment that has meant so much to so many people.
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We would get rid of assault weapons. There would not be an assault weapon in the United States, whether it's for a show or someone having it in a collection.
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I'm excited I had a chance to play on the best team ever. With the world championship on the line, I was really proud I did a good job.
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I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history.
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Most of the world's major waterways have been diverted or dammed or otherwise manipulated - in the United States, only two per cent of rivers run unimpeded - and people now use half the world's readily accessible freshwater runoff.
