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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Long before social media existed, the proto-tweets of advertising had penetrated American popular culture: 'A mind is a terrible thing to waste.' 'Where's the beef?' 'A diamond is forever.' 'Think different.' You'd be hard pressed to find a writer's craft that has more directly influenced the vernacular.
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But I, for one, am not interested in a harmless truth or a harmless God. Give me a truth that works, and a God who makes me tremble.
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Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top - I think that's the main thing for me to work on.
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I'm not an art director; I'm just not. I've always been somebody who has a sensibility that I hope is the same sensibility of others.
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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.
