Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
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You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.
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'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.
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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.
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I love singing Christmas carols. I know every harmony to every music-hall Christmas song.
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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.
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I feel like I'm the luckiest actress in the world.
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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.
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The best rappers I know are, like, air-conditioner men.
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Superheroes don't often get their powers in one fell swoop. It's like superhero puberty.
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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.
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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.
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Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Thought can never capture the movement of life, it is much too slow.
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I've been so relieved and so grateful to not have a god to believe in.
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Cleveland is really good about recognizing its artists because of the Arts Council.
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Government cannot do everything, so we need to first decide what government ought to be doing, then figure out what it's capable of doing, and then follow the jobs we choose to completion.
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No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.
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To me, the main thing about living on this planet is to know who the hell you are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive.
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Part of my job is to advocate on my constituents' behalf to federal agencies who aren't always responsive.
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No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
