Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.

Elizabeth Kolbert

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• We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• I have won on Honda and Yamaha so maybe it is interesting to win with a third team, Ducati, who are Italian.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • Win

• I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Father
  • Me
  • Friendly

• The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Movie
  • Wisdom
  • Gay

• We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.

  

  Parker Harris
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• All true happiness, pure joy, sweet bounties, and unclouded pleasure are contained within the knowledge and love of God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Love
  • True

• I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.

  

  Washed Out
  • Think
  • Blessing
  • Curse

• I like films to be pure cinema, but I also like them to provide a snapshot of a family, a society or a character - something that can nourish you as a human being as well as an actor.

  

  Tahar Rahim
  • Family
  • Character
  • Society

• Of course, no one wants to ban the vote. Voting should remain available for sporting and recreational purposes. But certain types of votes clearly should be curtailed - 'assault votes,' for example, in which the only purpose of the vote is to harm others.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Purpose
  • Vote
  • Voting

• There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Want
  • Way
  • Person

• People get in fights because they don't communicate, because you don't want to hurt the other person.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • People
  • Want
  • Hurt

• I tend to stay away from the comics.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Away
  • Stay
  • Tend

• What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known about that species.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Life
  • Everything
  • Page

• Every industry has slack times, and everyone has bad days at work.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Work
  • Bad
  • Days

• When you're as plain as I am, you've gotta have a gimmick.

  

  Ralph Hall
  • Plain
  • Gimmick

• Well, I don't think I've ever consciously come up with tricks and tools to, kind of, hide. I do think I'm a bit more vigilant, in terms of safety issues and things. And sometimes it is kind of nice to try to hold onto your anonymity.

  

  Calista Flockhart
  • Up
  • Think
  • Nice

• My conception of my ideal reader has expanded quite a lot as I've matured: Ultimately when I think of my ideal reader, it's someone who's not sitting down with the intention of automatically arguing with the book: somebody who's going to give me enough slack to tell my story.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Book
  • Me
  • Intention

• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Nature
  • Justice

• I'm not dyeing my hair and trying to pretend I'm 40. That's not going to work for me.

  

  Laurence Fishburne
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Hair

• Adult characters are all the things they've encountered over time. But kids haven't accumulated all the life experience, all the regrets. They tend to be more in the moment, more willing to play, to be joyful.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Life
  • Time
  • Experience

• Am I Machiavellian? I don't think I'm quite the mastermind people would have me be. Everything I do tends to be very successful and it may have something to do with the fact that I'm very good, not necessarily that I manipulate. But that doesn't often occur to people.

  

  David Bowie
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Successful

• Blueberries, strawberries and blackberries are true super foods. Naturally sweet and juicy, berries are low in sugar and high in nutrients - they are among the best foods you can eat.

  

  Joel Fuhrman
  • True
  • High
  • Sweet

• I was correct in every call I made, regardless of what managers, players or replay may have said. To me, that's the reason I'm in the Hall of Fame. If I didn't umpire with conviction, I wouldn't have made it for long.

  

  Doug Harvey
  • Long
  • May

• Where the kids routinely outscored the apes was in tasks that involved reading social cues.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Kids
  • Tasks
  • Cues