Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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A good composer does not imitate; he steals.
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I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.
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Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is - and that is the point I want to stress - that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.
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The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.
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I moved back to Idaho when I was 6 or 7 and then lived in a little town called Twin Falls and then moved to Boise. So quite different from L.A. I'd been to Disneyland a couple of times, and that was the closest I'd been to L.A.
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Some songs are just like tattoos for your brain... you hear them and they're affixed to you.
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I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.
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I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.
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I used to be obsessed with game shows. When the Game Show Network became popular in the late '90s, I was all about reruns of 'The Price Is Right.' I knew all the prices from the '70s.
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Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.
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One of Kuhn's marvellous legacies is science studies as we know it today.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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The public has shown confidence that any increases in inflation will be temporary and that, in the long run, inflation will remain low.
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All action to address climate change is an inseparable and integrated part of the whole plan, and the leadership and commitment of all governments remains central to success.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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Women's rights is an important and challenging question for us to be asking. It focuses attention on a global issue that in the wake of the 2016 presidential election reached a fever pitch and flooded city streets with pink-hatted protestors. The stakes are enormously high for women, but also for the church.
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Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.
