Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Meanwhile, an even stranger and more radical transformation is under way. Having discovered subterranean reserves of energy, humans begin to change the composition of the atmosphere.
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The most significant barrier to female leadership is the actual lack of females in leadership. The best advice I can give to women is to go out and start something, ideally their own businesses. If you can't see a path for leadership within your own company, go blaze a trail of your own.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.
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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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Why has the Democratic Party become so arrogantly detached from ordinary Americans? Though they claim to speak for the poor and dispossessed, Democrats have increasingly become the party of an upper-middle-class professional elite, top-heavy with journalists, academics and lawyers.
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Using lots of fresh foods, fruits and vegetables, helps to keep the menu buoyant - I don't know if that's the right word, but it keeps a balance of freshness and health.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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My marks were always bad, and I was a bad influence on other children, so they would explain to my mother that they could retain me only by being partial towards me, and so I should offer to leave the school myself. I would barely get 40-50% and was also extremely naughty.
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The more desperate you are, the more mistakes you make.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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You cannot bring about prosperity without discouraging thrift.
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I am neither the handsomest nor the richest nor the most powerful, but I've had the greatest women in the world.
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Even top caliber hospitals cannot escape medical mistakes that sometimes result in irreparable damage to patients.
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Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
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Long-term commitment to new learning and new philosophy is required of any management that seeks transformation. The timid and the fainthearted, and the people that expect quick results, are doomed to disappointment.
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There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they're doing ballads and pop. Where's the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.
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Our thoughts are heard in heaven.
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Meanwhile, an even stranger and more radical transformation is under way. Having discovered subterranean reserves of energy, humans begin to change the composition of the atmosphere.
