Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.
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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.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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I am being embezzled by a monstrous ring of accountants, estate planners and lawyers who are mercilessly slandering me and trying to kill my career and, I believe, murder me in order to gain control of my royalties.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I would love to be a role model.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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Luck can be assisted. It is not all chance with the wise.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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Have friends. 'Tis a second existence.
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Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
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You get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions.
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I'm the only person in this sport, for the most part, that ain't on steroids. Now there's new rules in effect, yeah, you've got guys not on steroids now, but they used to be. They've always been on steroids.
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I am not a methodical singer. I don't follow any process or rules; what I follow is just my heart - whatever I experience, I just write and then compose it.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.
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I love the fact that I can mess with someone's head.
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If you have twenty guys in the room and you just bring in one girl, you change the entire mood and everyone plays different.
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If we esteem them too highly, good works can become the greatest idolatry.
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The best thing I've done with my money is buy a house for my family. You wake up to a house you love and you feel like somebody.
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There's been a progression in my sound.
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We're talking really huge global-scale change, and I did not feel that I had the prescription for that kind of action, so I'm going to leave it to the reader.
