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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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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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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There is no ageism or 'youthism' when it comes to freedom of speech. We are all citizens.
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The thing with drama is you're allowed to invent people who are maybe slightly better than real people.
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When you have a different name, people just kind of take the liberty to spell it how they want.
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Ninety percent of my mentors have been male, most of them with very little in common with me on a personal level - from life experience, work experience, backgrounds, etc.
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Most artists I run into aren't that thrilled with what they do anyway. They are glad to have different versions out there to see which one the audience likes the best.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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I get to sit at home with the dogs on the sofa, record in a closet in the office, send them off and, if I'm lucky, make a million dollars.
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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.
