Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.
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Tell the truth.
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College is part of the American dream. It shouldn't be part of a financial nightmare for families.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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We are learning more about the humanity of the unborn child. Science and truth support the prolife movement.
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The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.
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An auctioneer is such a uniquely American thing. I keep thinking in my head, perhaps it's not as American as I think, but it feels so Southern. It feels so American. Like, hundreds of years of American tradition is involved in it.
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One of the things that I like about 'Narcos' is that not only Pablo but with all the characters - this is not a black and white show. This is not a regular American cop show where two cool cops go to save a country from a bad guy. All the characters are very complex.
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Facts are many, but the truth is one.
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I learned about poise and dignity, and I learned about what it means to be an African-American in television and what that requires in terms of what kind of position you take for yourself and how you define your own reality in a world that is still finding its footing, to say the least.
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What do I bring to a film? I think, maybe, I know for a fact that I focus on connection of character; I focus on warmth and a heart, but I don't know if it's because I'm African American or because I'm crazy -who knows.
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I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
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There isn't a single American city, in my estimation, that has sufficient plans for a nuclear terrorist event.
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What I think we need to do to engage the American people in a conversation about entitlement reform is to have a bipartisan group of people who come together and put every solution on the table, every alternative on the table. And then we ought to engage in a long conversation with the American people so they understand the choices.
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My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.
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I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him.
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Wasn’t that their natural right, to know the truth so as to be able to let the truth lead them to do good or evil, as they chose?
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With this realization, came a growing need for men and women willing to take up arms in an effort to protect our American way of life and the freedoms so many of our ancestors died to entrench.
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The truth of the matter is, I'm a filmmaker.
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I was never an A student, but I was really well behaved until I was 13 or so.
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We're going to be examining, how can we more properly screen and vet people coming into the United States? We will also be looking at the border.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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Several decades ago, a detachment of the American right cut itself loose from reason, and it has been drifting along happily ever since. If the birthers are more evidently kooky than the global-warming "skeptics" or the death-panellers or the supply-siders or the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, they are, in their fundamental disregard for the facts, actually mainstream.
