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.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• Fuels

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• To be honest, I have never thought about getting into direction.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Halsey
  • Direction
  • Fan
  • Horizon

• 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.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Problem
  • Mistake
  • Same

• 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.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Important
  • America

• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• 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.'

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Fall
  • Moment
  • Try

• I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Want
  • Pride
  • Direction

• I look forward to representing the voters of District 30 and moving the state in a new direction.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Moving
  • New
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Tanya Fischer
  • Different
  • You
  • Name

• 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.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Think
  • Moving
  • Direction

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• 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.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Want
  • Write
  • Direction

• 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.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Want

• 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.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Flying
  • Direction

• I'd love to write for One Direction. I think they've done incredibly well.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • Think
  • Write
  • Direction

• If we're on long-haul flights I've been known to sleep on the floor so I hear the engine.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Long
  • Sleep
  • Hear

• I'm approaching 70. Unfortunately, from the wrong direction.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Wrong
  • Direction

• I mean, George Bush is a man of prayer. He talks to the lord. He tries to get his direction from the lord.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Man
  • Prayer
  • Direction

• I was diagnosed with an early, early stage of prostate cancer. I was almost a vegetarian then. I was heading that direction. What pushed me over the edge, was the doctor who did the diagnosis. He said in a discussion about prostate cancer that he had never seen a vegetarian with prostate cancer. And this is not a holistic doctor, this is a regular, mainstream doctor. And I was just blown away.

  

  Michael Dorn
  • Cancer
  • Direction
  • Doctor

• There are some jobs that you go for because achieving them would take your career in a direction that you would like it to go, but mostly, I want to play the roles and have had the great good fortune and opportunities to play some fantastic roles and been very, very fortunate.

  

  Essie Davis
  • Career
  • Jobs
  • Opportunities

• Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.

  

  Gary Shteyngart
  • Good
  • Work
  • Hand

• If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.

  

  Harry S Truman
  • Kitchen
  • Heat

• Holly's theory about the army," Sharon explained. And what is it?" Denise asked, intrigued. Oh, that fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.

  

  Cecelia Ahern
  • Fighting
  • Army
  • Hollies

• 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.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Direction
  • Engine
  • Fuels