Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

  

  P. L. Travers
  • Work
  • Me
  • Myself

• 'Pulp Fiction' was probably one of the first films I ever saw that really kind of took effect on me. I was about four years old – obviously wasn't supposed to be seeing that film; my sister kind of sneaked it out and we got to see it. She's older than me. That was something I always used to watch.

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Kind
  • Film
  • Effect

• As a nation, Kuwait has been, arguably, free of freedom itself. Claimed in turn by Constantinople, Riyadh, and Baghdad, Kuwait has survived by playing Turks off Persians, Arabs off one another, and the English off everyone.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Free
  • Freedom
  • English

• I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Song

• Though I technically come from a film family, my father had stopped making films even before my brother and I were born. So I did not really grow up in a filmi environment. And when I was growing up, becoming an actress was still quite a taboo. And you may not believe this, but even my father did not want me to join films.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Family

• I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.

  

  Kate Flannery
  • World
  • Like
  • Feel

• With women empowerment and women coming together, it's not about being better than the guys or whatever. It's just about collaboration; it's about being equal people and having more of a highlight on women's athletics and just women being equal in every aspect.

  

  Becky Lynch
  • People
  • Women
  • Together

• The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Men
  • Know
  • Best

• Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Like
  • Superhero
  • Often

• People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.

  

  Dan Chaon
  • People
  • Time
  • Trying

• I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

  

  Frank Abagnale
  • Money

• Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Learning
  • Doubt
  • Skills

• You can put a new shirt on your back, slide a fresh chain around your neck, and accumulate all the money and power in the world, but at the end of the day those are just layers. Money and power don't change you, they just further expose your true self.

  

  Jay-Z
  • World
  • Money
  • Power

• I guess after college, I just got really into food. I also think going on the road doing stand-up makes you more into food. Because when you travel like that, one of the things to do is find really good places to eat.

  

  Aziz Ansari
  • Up
  • Good
  • Food

• The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

  

  Margaret Truman
  • Men
  • Women
  • May

• Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.

  

  U.G. Krishnamurti
  • Life
  • Movement
  • Capture

• I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • God
  • Believe

• Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • Good
  • Recognizing
  • Cleveland

• Under conditions of terror, most people will comply but some people will not.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • People
  • Conditions
  • Terror

• The bottom line on nuclear weapons is that when the president gives the order, it must be followed. There's about four minutes between the order being given and the people responsible for launching nuclear weapons to do so. And that's why 10 people who have had that awesome responsibility have come out and, in an unprecedented way, said they would not trust Donald Trump with the nuclear codes or to have his finger on the nuclear button.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • President
  • Donald Trump
  • Nuclear Weapons

• We need to believe Donald Trump when he bullies and threatens to throw out every immigrant in the country.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • Donald Trump
  • Immigrant

• And one has to remember that no photography can pretend to show the truth. A picture only shows a given situation under a very specific perspective, consciously or not, openly or not, relevantly or not. Photographers have to accept they can just convey fragments of illusory realities and relate their own intimate experience of the world. In this process of fictionalising an unreachable truth, it's up to them to impose their doubts about any photographic truth, or accept being impotent pawns in the mediatic game.

  

  Antoine D'Agata
  • Truth
  • Photography
  • Realities

• The manner of their living is very barbarous, because they do not eat at fixed times, but as often as they please.

  

  Amerigo Vespucci
  • Living
  • Manner
  • Barbarous

• No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Planet
  • Conditions
  • Changing