Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.
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To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
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The problem is that when polls are wrong, they tend to be wrong in the same direction. If they miss in New Hampshire, for instance, they all miss on the same mistake.
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.
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Charles Bean is a brilliant director. I come in with an idea and try to do it, but I fall on my face. And then, he says, 'Wait a minute, there was a little moment in there. Let's try that moment and expand in that direction.'
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.
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You get callbacks, and they either give it to what they call a 'name' performer, or they decide to go in an entirely different direction.
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So I think hip-hop is moving and is going to continue to move in the direction of rappers just being honest with themselves, whether you're talking about Common and Mos Def or Nas and 50 cent.
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My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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I have this very abstract idea in my head. I wouldn't even want to call it stand-up, because stand-up conjures in one's mind a comedian with a microphone standing onstage under a spotlight telling jokes to an audience. The direction I'm going in is eventually, you won't know if it's a joke or not.
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There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.
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I'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well.
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If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.
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I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.
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I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.
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The big lesson of Reagan is: To think that he was some sort of simple figurehead and didn't do the thinking and simply read a script in front of him woefully underestimates him. Ronald Reagan was an extremely intelligent person with a real V8 engine under his hood.
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With some exceptions in science fiction and other genres I have small difficulty in avoiding anything that could be called American literature. I feel it is unnatural, not I think entirely because it uses a language that is not mine, however closely akin to my own.
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I love vintage cowboy boots, and some days I'm into platform stilettos encrusted in jewels. It's really all over the place.
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There were momentary visitations. I was a visitor, not an inhabitant. I think I say that at the beginning of the book: "I have made visits to the earth in my body, but it's always been as a visitor."
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You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't.
