Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is based on burning fossil fuels, which is taking CO2 out of the ground and putting it up into the air.Elizabeth Kolbert
Quotes to Explore
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I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.
Nancy Gibbs -
I would love to be a role model.
Gabby Douglas -
The great thing about all my siblings is we all agree we had a horrendous childhood. It's not like it doesn't affect us now; it affects us every day, in everything we do.
Pat Conroy -
Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
Nazanin Boniadi -
Governments are not running the show anymore. Scumbag Entrepreneurs are, and they have a harsh and ruthless agenda.
Ralph Steadman -
The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
R. J. Cutler
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
I think any artist that's going to become anything in this world faces humility: with great humility comes great success.
Yelawolf -
I love music.
Isaac Hayes -
If months were marked by colors, November in New England would be colored gray.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.
Vince Vaughn -
Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
Abu Bakr
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I never wanted to be the next Bruce Lee. I just wanted to be the first Jackie Chan.
Jackie Chan -
I know of some guitar-based rock bands that refuse to record anything that they can't play live. But some of the best stuff I come up with are studio-based performances - bringing out whatever accident I had in the studio and building a song around that.
Washed Out -
When I board an airplane these days, all the middle-aged men are dressed like me - when I was an 8-year-old. They're in shorts and T-shirts. And it's not just on airplanes. It's in business offices, teachers' lounges, and churches.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Can there not be a limit to the fact that really you need to cut your cloth in accordance with what capabilities and finances you have?
Iain Duncan Smith -
If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.
Idi Amin -
Anybody that sings the blues is in a deep pit, yelling for help.
Mahalia Jackson
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The gain is not the having of children; it is the discovery of love and how to be loving.
Polly Berrien Berends -
As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.
Majora Carter -
Vegetarian food leaves a deep impression on our nature. If the whole world adopts vegetarianism, it can change the destiny of humankind.
Albert Einstein -
You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
Imelda Staunton -
People sometimes say we need to be really almost on a wartime footing if you want to change. Our whole economy is based on burning fossil fuels, which is taking CO2 out of the ground and putting it up into the air.
Elizabeth Kolbert